Quote Originally Posted by eco2geek
At a time when installing Red Hat's Fedora Core is as easy as installing Windows, literally, it's rather shocking to come up against something as difficult and unintuitive as Debian! I wasn't expecting it to be that difficult.

The package manager Debian uses is clearly superior to rpm, though, which is why I'm looking to use Debian-based distros from now on. Want to install Mozilla Firefox? Just type "apt-get install mozilla-firefox" and it's all done for you, dependencies included!

XandrOS, although it isn't free, is starting to look pretty good right now!
if this was dead, i don't mean to dig it up, but Fedora Core can be configured to use apt. That was always the first thing I did after installing it. I'm currently running Debian Sarge (i used the new Debian-installer stuff) and I can't get it to kill the X server to install my nvidia drivers. I'm going back to Fedora Core as soon as I can get to an FTP install off of two floppies (cd burner broke on me.....):S