Originally posted by: magomago
Mandrake!
I have no idea why anyone would reccomend you Gentoo or Slackware - they are the "hard core" versions and are definitely NOT friendly to n00bs
I'd say try Mandrake first, and then REdhat
Originally posted by: Capnroy89
Thanks everyone, I'm going with Redhat 8.0. For now I'm going to do a dual boot because I don't think there is enough support for gaming that I want to do, so I'll dual boot with XP.
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Capnroy89
Thanks everyone, I'm going with Redhat 8.0. For now I'm going to do a dual boot because I don't think there is enough support for gaming that I want to do, so I'll dual boot with XP.
Sounds like a good plan, that's what I'm doing right now (I've used others, but I like RedHat because it is easy). Personally I don't buy into the whole "jump right into the cold water" philosophy (sorry n0cmonkey).
If you don't gain a basic understanding of the OS first, you are going to do things the wrong way (unless you are very patient). It's better to ease into it. Nothing else is taught by throwing you into the fray right away, why should a new OS be like that?
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I dont know about you, but I felt I was thrown into the fire at school in just about every class. And work. Yeesh.
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I dont know about you, but I felt I was thrown into the fire at school in just about every class. And work. Yeesh.
Yeah, I'll agree with you there. And a lot of times I would have liked a little time in the shallow end of the pool first
Originally posted by: smp
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I dont know about you, but I felt I was thrown into the fire at school in just about every class. And work. Yeesh.
Yeah, I'll agree with you there. And a lot of times I would have liked a little time in the shallow end of the pool first
bah ... that's for kids! Womb syndrome! It's like not wanting to get out of bed, sometime you need to get rudely awakened to face the day.. but once you're up it's not so hard.
Like at work.. I never learned how to drive a forklift.. I never had lessons! I just got on it, and did it. Everything worked out fine... at least with linux, you can start over.
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: smp
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I dont know about you, but I felt I was thrown into the fire at school in just about every class. And work. Yeesh.
Yeah, I'll agree with you there. And a lot of times I would have liked a little time in the shallow end of the pool first
bah ... that's for kids! Womb syndrome! It's like not wanting to get out of bed, sometime you need to get rudely awakened to face the day.. but once you're up it's not so hard.
Like at work.. I never learned how to drive a forklift.. I never had lessons! I just got on it, and did it. Everything worked out fine... at least with linux, you can start over.
Well you certainly learn quickly that way, but somehow it always feels like sheer luck nothing bad happens. I like having the feeling of fully understanding every aspect of something rather than "hey, it works and I didn't start it on fire." But that's probably just me being a wuss
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I dont know about you, but I felt I was thrown into the fire at school in just about every class. And work. Yeesh.
Yeah, I'll agree with you there. And a lot of times I would have liked a little time in the shallow end of the pool first
Originally posted by: smp
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: smp
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I dont know about you, but I felt I was thrown into the fire at school in just about every class. And work. Yeesh.
Yeah, I'll agree with you there. And a lot of times I would have liked a little time in the shallow end of the pool first
bah ... that's for kids! Womb syndrome! It's like not wanting to get out of bed, sometime you need to get rudely awakened to face the day.. but once you're up it's not so hard.
Like at work.. I never learned how to drive a forklift.. I never had lessons! I just got on it, and did it. Everything worked out fine... at least with linux, you can start over.
Well you certainly learn quickly that way, but somehow it always feels like sheer luck nothing bad happens. I like having the feeling of fully understanding every aspect of something rather than "hey, it works and I didn't start it on fire." But that's probably just me being a wuss
yeah.. WUSS
so you're telling me that after some time in the shallow end, and then some time in the deep end.. you understand the innermost workings of the linux kernel?
I bow to you, I am not worthy.
I think that there is always a bit of that "hey, it works, leave it alone" mentality, no matter what level you're at. You trust that the developer that created whatever code you're running, the engineers that designed whatever platform you're running on, did their job well, and that _they_ understood what _they_ were doing. I wish I knew everything too.....
the fundamental question has not been answered, so we're all in the figurative "deep end".
this ends SMP's philosophical and somewhat existential rant.
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