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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 dvorak on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:21AM

    by dvorak (1194) on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:21AM (#11832)

    I think at least some of that lack of generalization is due to variance in behaviors between software. There are certain things whose consistency is enforced by the operating system, but in some cases an application can take what seems like a generalized concept and apply it in a different way. Imagine that saving from one program emptied that program's undo stack. That would be abnormal, potentially destructive if I lost work in an old,version of a file, and would make me think twice about clicking save.