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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: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:18PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:18PM (#11659) Journal

    You don't want the type you described exploring, you want to slap a Firefox shortcut on their desktop and rename it "Internet Explorer" and while you're at it slap shortcuts to their media folders on the desktop as well, naming the shortcuts likewise with Windows terminology ("My music, My Pictures, My downloads, etc."). They won't bother to understand the concept of /home, all they want is to check e-mail and browse porn and Facebook.

    The ones like us who go into it ourselves are a whole different breed. We want to experience for ourselves why Linux is better by exploring the increased freedom we have, often having borked our installs back in the day when manually editing config files was "elite hacking." The majority of us installed it ourselves out of curiosity and/or practicality, not because our grandkids gave us an ultimatum after having reinstalled our Windows for the fiftieth time.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:58AM (#11892)

    naming the shortcuts likewise with Windows terminology

    Ken Starks has a story about that too: 84-year-old with a stubborn streak [googleusercontent.com]. (orig) [fossforce.com]

    -- gewg_