Re: Distro for granny and/or companies?

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On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:18, Jonathan Day wrote:
> Gentoo's "cream of the crop" only works if your needs
> match those defined by the Gentoo team. Same with any
> other distro, for that matter. What I'm after is a
> distro that is sufficiently generic that some subset
> of it will fit a given user, and that all users would
> find such a subset, where the subsets are no worse
> (and possibly a lot more complete) than those for
> traditional distributions.

Here's the thing: what makes Linux difficult to newbies is not the
absence of choice; it is the *abundance* of choice.

It's very difficult to make choices without having any basis for
deciding.  As a new user, should you use Gnome or KDE?  They're both
good enough you may as well flip a coin... but newbies probably *should*
avoid UDE.  A true sumo distro would contain all three, would it not?

Dylan