3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
6:32 p.m.
advice is to
avoid a distro that does everything for you. These are the
most difficult to configure and tweak if something doesn't work
plug-and-play, and less adherent to standards. And you'll learn nothing.
I really doubt that. The distributions that have automatic hardware
detection and setup etc still use the same config files as more
barebones distributions, and editing a config file on Mandrake is no
harder than doing it on Slackware.
if only it were that simple.. take things like the builtin GUI
utilities being incredibly dumb and overwriting settings you changed
behind the scenes. compared with the etc-update util in gentoo (or the
similar thing in debian) these 'autoconfiguring' distrii often have no
inkling that a user might want to override only certain things
so my vote should be apparent..