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Recommending Linux to a Friend

posted by Dopefish on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-need-to-join-the-microsoft-collective dept.

resignator writes:

"'Arm yourself with the information needed before telling someone to install such and such distro because it's great,' warned blogger Ken Starks in his recent FOSS Force post. 'It might be great for you, but maybe not so much with my hardware choices.'

What considerations do SoylentNews readers have when recommending an OS? What OS do you recommend the most or least? How far would you go to 'tailor' a Linux distro to a potential adopter before recommending something that will work out of the box but lack non-essential features?"

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Random2 on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:37PM

    by Random2 (669) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:37PM (#11592)

    1) Ease of use (Do I have to finagle with al sorts of crap to even get it running?)
    2) Program support (Needs to support a wide range of programs, and vice versa)

    Those two are what has kept me on Windows for forever. That and Ubuntu/Vista(it came with the laptop) did not duel-boot well. And even when they were peaceful (AKA not constantly wiping my harddrive), I never really found myself using Ubuntu all that much, because of #2. It was neat, sure, and it was cool that it was FOSS, but without #2 there's not much draw (this includes programs which don't WINE well).

    -Make my own? Not interested in solving other people's integration problems, I'll take convenience over spending potentially hundreds of hours to get a program running for -every- program I want to run on my computer.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Schafer2 on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:53PM

    by Schafer2 (348) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:53PM (#11606)

    At first I thought "duel boot" was a typo. Well played, sir!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:56AM (#11890)

    2) Needs to support a wide range of programs
    [...}I never really found myself using Ubuntu all that much, because of #2.

    You guys who claim that there isn't a Linux-compatible app to do your tasks are a real hoot [linuxrsp.ru].

    -- gewg_