Quote Originally Posted by nishtya
oh no, Cuddles...poke wasn't about you and I don't ever remember you voicing hatred of apt! LOL Upgrading, yes LOL. Me too. If you look out on the general linux help forums, though, a lot of folks get hung up on having "broken" apt when there has been a failed install. They really haven't broken it. You just have to know how to get it to go on with it's apt life And of course much of the world revolves around rpms (no pun intended)
Ha HA, RPM - revoles [giggle] -=- along those lines of apt being broke, I'm one of those. I get a "funny" message, and I'm right here posting "What do I do????" - I guess I can "walk through it" now, kind of, but, I'm so affraid of messing the whole install up, and having to get what I have done so far, all over again, yeeeesh, now THATS a horror thought...

Quote Originally Posted by nishtya
As to my acquaintance well he runs redhat since that is what he works with. I, like you, am a home user and thought debian based distros (and kanotix in particular) the greatest thing since sliced bread. I don't know a lot about the development of debian but I know it has been good to me. Considering right now I think I am getting hacked here in fedora. Because it is a beta of a commercial distro for linux experts for goodness sake and I don't know what the hell I am doing in it!

I just don't think he understands I use linux like well, a windows user uses windows. You use the computer, you aren't interested in reverse engineering the freaking code. It would take me years and years of studying to understand it. I doubt I would get to the proficiency level I am in windows in my well, lifespan! Windows, I not only used it, I ran it...I made a living fixing it. So it is a schizoid kind of deal. In linux I am reduced to just a user. Which is fine. I am comfortable enough with debian and where to find support if I screw up too much
I do, and did, the same thing - I still get people asking "how do I fix this?" in Windows stuff - I'm slowly starting to displace my memory, and loosing a lot of what I knew in Windows - Ok, you click on the KMenu, go up to settings, and click on Controi Center... OOPS, you click on the "START" menu... Some of the screens and option boxes are getting blurred in my mind now, and I think more with Knoppix interfaces...

As for RedHat, yeeesh... Has to be a sadist, and thus, wants to make you one too - i.e. he has to deal with the horror, why not share it with someone else, kind of thing - sorry, wont go there... Heck, you dont have to be able to "write your own distro in source code, from scratch" to run Linux, I guess that would be kewl, in a very sadistic sort of way, but, you dont HAVE to... Just the same as, I dont have to write my own games, so that I can apt-get them from someone else who already has, why??? To prove that I am worthy to play the game? Naaaa... I think your friend is trying to show off in front of you... "Look what I run", and then see that you cant figure it out, cause he did, kind of thing... You run what you want, let him run what he wants. If all he wants to do is make your install belittled, fine, let him play hell on his own install, and you get what you have to get done, working a lot easier, with what you are running... If he sees that you can do things a little easier than what he has to put up with, he might come looking around the corner, and be a little more interested, if not, so be it...

Take care my friend