[ale] easy first distro for a non-linux person?

[Jason Day]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:24:10PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jason Day wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:08:13PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >>You bloody can't beat that.
> >
> >
> >apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
> >
> >;-)
> 
> You're still at the command line and you don't have any idea what it's 
> doing.

Ok.  apt-get update; apt-get -u upgrade

;-)

> The average person is going to be more comfortable with the gui. 
> To each his/her own though.

Agreed.  This was just an attempt at humor, but I also wanted to point
out that "easier" is subjective.  I would certainly never recommend
Debian to someone who's never used linux before, but I personally will
take APT over yast any day.  To each his own.
-- 
Jason Day                                       jasonday at
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