This may be considered "off topic" by some, but I just stumbled on an interesting website with a program called "Linux Distribution Chooser". Even though I've been with Debian for a couple years now, I thought I'd just test out the "chooser"...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ I went through the series of questions, one of which was what desktop environment I preferred. I chose KDE. The final result of *my* responses to the queries ended with the program suggesting Kubuntu and Mepis, with "In addition, we found these matches, sorted by how well they match:" naming Debian. The note next to it: > Failed these criterias: > # Does not use the desired desktop environment I know there has been a prolonged discussion on this list recently about why Gnome is the default installation rather than KDE. In fact with all the verbiage, I still don't know WHY there isn't a choice of desktops given the person installing Debian. I use this experience with the "chooser" to point out the continuing misconception about Debian. According to TUX magazine, > Desktop Poll Results > This is a poll from the tuxmachine Web site. KDE [was favored > over] GNOME 51% to 21%—that’s 3 to 1. Admittedly this is not a scientific poll, and I'm not interested in starting (another) flame war over KDE vs. GNOME (send those comments to /dev/null please), but I am interested in seeing the Debian Installer give the user a choice during installation. Why not? Regards, Don -- Confidence is the feeling you have before you really understand the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
