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Anonymous
a decade later, this old (2008) satirical linux.com article is still poignant
How to write a thorough review of a Linux distributionmoar bestest wallpapoz!
rokytnji
Not a bad article from what little I read.
I don’t pay attention to reviews anymore for anything. From movies, food, products, places to visit, and music. To Linux distros and software.
A lot are biased and do not address my tastes/preferences/druthers.
So I ignore them and take a hands on approach instead. I might use one to find out how to do something. But that would be about it. Opinions are like belly buttons. Some are innys. Some are outies. But everyone seems to have one.People are flawed. So I take that into account. last time I listened to a Linux review.
“AntiX is for advanced linux users”
Back around version 7 or so. Which made me afeared to try it out. Thinking Gentoo or even worse. A rawhide rpm distro. < I am rpm dyslexic >.
But. My IBM 390E needed some kind of distro to work the wireless pcmcia card I had. So I bit the bullet and gave it try out.
Been here ever since.- This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by rokytnji.
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cyrilus31
I would not say antiX is for advanced Linux users as you can count on control center to help doing a lot of annoying stuff.
But newcomers can get lost as antiX lacks some kind of coherence in the interface and has a few little bells and whistles (but you have choice and a solid distribution and that’s so good).
- This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by cyrilus31.
jdmeaux1952
Beware of the Trolls!! Linux, just like YouTube and others, has its share of Trolls going out there and simply dishing an O.S. to limit its popularity.
You can search YT and find some videos that have been trashed so bad that YT refused to pay the creators revenue. A friend of mine named Kevin has a channel for Ham radio. He teaches cheap, inexpensive ways of making your own equipment, constructs various kits for radios, and reviews a small variety of products that he has purchased. Several of his videos have been flagged and removed from YT for “copyright infringement”. How can a review be copyright infringement? If he was directly copying someone else’s review, we could see that. But this is not what is happening. Kevin did a video on what Linux was and what it was not, its history, and its uses. It was almost straight out of any Linux book you can find. And it was flagged as “inappropriate”.
So AGAIN I say, Beware of Trolls!.
JD
- This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by jdmeaux1952.
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I would not say antiX is for advanced Linux users as you can count on control center to help doing a lot of annoying stuff.
I would say it is for advanced users, in the sense that it will overwhelm users who are new to Linux.
I say that thinking of people I know who are not techsavvy and don’t even know keyboard shortcuts in their respective, popular OS (Win 10 and macOS) and think it is like magic when I do sth. as easy as closing a window with Ctrl-W or they get scared when I open a terminal on their macOS to delete file that won’t delete with the bin. (Terminals are scary!)
Fur users like this, I would definitely point them to a distro like an Ubuntu LTS or, even better, Linux Mint. If they get a grip on it and want to delve deeper into it, then I would recommend something like MX Linux, and antiX is in my opinion a little more complex, but not much. For me, it fills a niche for people who are looking for sth. that works on old hardware or people who like a very slim, lightweigth distro. AntiX is great, but I would not recommend it for someone who has no experience with Linux whatsoever and is not techsavvy.
In that sense, antiX is imho for advanced users, ie you should have at least a little experience with Linux.
cyrilus31
antiX est ma première distribution linux 😉
Je pense vraiment que la curiosité fait la différence plutôt que l’expérience.
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