Re: Keith's tribute started...

Les Cargill wrote:

It's cool. You could dual boot for a while to experiment with it and see how you like it.

Yarg. No mean feat, that. It's not as bad as it used to be*, but...

*when I did this in... 1996? it was Very Very interesting,
requiring significant understanding of FDISK & LILO, yadda yadda...

1996? That's over ten years ago. Even the most average computer newb can install something like Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS. Grub/LILO is taken care of by the installer.

With Linux, there's so much choice

And that's really the problem...

Well, perhaps if you're indecisive or like to procrastinate.

that it's better to start with one of the established distributions that have a mature desktop environment. Much if not all of the software you need to get started will already be pre-installed.

But to be clear - getting full replacement functionality for all the
stuff he requires will take months ( or maybe just weeks ) of poking around.

I don't agree. This isn't 1996 ;)
.

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