On Saturday 15 May 2004 8:52 pm, Graham Trott wrote:
For comparison, most mandrake installs take about 20 mins including partitioning, installing all the above plus other stuff and configuring the network connection. Plus the time you leave it to read stuff off the DVD/CDs of course so maybe an hour and a half.
That's not comparing like with like.
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What took a day and a half was learning how to do it manually from a minuimal command-line install up to a complete GUI, leaving out all the redundant fluff you get with SuSE or Mandrake. And ending up with a much better understanding of what's going on.
Oh absolutely, very different indeed, but I just couldn't resist making a comment, especially as you often remark on how difficult it is to do things in 'linux' compared to windows :-)
It's all horses for courses of course. I guess I'm in a minority in ALUG as I'm not an IT professional so I just use something that works for me with the minimum of hassle. Although I'm still quite happy to edit config files when needed so I'm not a total wimp (bad pun intended).
Syd