On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 11:59 +0000, Bill Oliver wrote: > I think being comfy with a distro is a big deal.... > > Then Mandriva collapsed. I had to get used to Fedora. When Mageia > came out, I was tickled pink and immediately installed it -- only to > find that now I was in the exact opposite position. I'm now very > comfy with Fedora, and all the Mageia tools an locations are a pain in > the ass to get used to. So, no Mageia for me -- not because it's a > bad distro, but because I just don't want to be bothered with changing > stuff just to be changing stuff. And /that/ is one of the things against Fedora - it keeps on changing, and quickly, too. Sure, you've got a fighting chance of being able to work out the differences between Fedora version x and x+1, but sometimes they are extreme. Enough that it's like changing distros, sometimes even worse. I find it a nuisance dealing with the changes between releases, when using it as a desktop computer. But I find it a complete pain dealing with services between releases, enough that I have very old releases still in use, and toy with putting them onto CentOS so I can just leave it running, and not have to rejig it once or twice a year. While some might think once or twice a year isn't so bad, I do. Along with everything else I have to *manage*, I don't want yet another thing. And worse is having to help other people cope with these changes. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.11.10-301.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Thu Dec 5 14:21:31 UTC 2013 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
