...and I need some feedback, if you please.
I'm coming from SuSE 8.0 and have been increasingly frustrated with the
direction SuSE is going (first installed SuSE 5 years ago) and several
have suggested that Debian was the way for me to go. I am looking for
the following:
--ability to recover when occasional problems happen (without having to
reinstall to recover my X desktop)
--gnome friendly (SuSE is increasingly marginalizing gnome in favor of
KDE)
--decent community to help out with problems (which is why many
suggested you guys, and why I subscribed to the list...)
--ability to install software easily (I don't mind the
configure/make/make install dance except that SuSE sometimes puts stuff
in weird places--difficult for me to find)
--more control over boot process and graphical logins (I hate it)
--and the ability to *easily* control many of my tweaks. When SuSE
went exclusively to yast2, I lost the ability to change many things
(like the graphical login...) and changes I *did* make get changed back
after the next re-boot.
--documentation for me to read to help me figure stuff out.
I originally went to linux from OS/2 (after IBM practically killed it)
and don't mind getting my hands dirty; I actually prefer it to the slick
installs. I guess there is a slim line I am walking here as I have never
re-compiled a kernel and I'm not sure I want to (don't have time) but I
still like to control my system when I need to.
Thank you.
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