On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 April 2014 12:56:04 Alexandre wrote:
>> Wonder why Debian is so appreciated still in 2014. On PCLinuxOS,
>> 98% of the time all of your hardware is auto-configured.
>
> Horses for courses, Alexandre.  I administered PCLOS for a couple of
> years for my husband and granddaughter.  There were good points, but
> I didn't particularly like it long term.  Of course, I haven't
> actually run it for a while, so I may be out of date, but the same, I
> suspect, applies to your experience of Debian.
>
> As I get older, the attraction of a quiet life grows greater.  I now
> administer four boxen: 3 desktops and one laptop.  All four run
> Debian 7 and TDE 3.5.13.2.  All 4 users/owners are happy.

you got into trouble disparaging pclinux, will be interested to see 
how that debate plays out but I'm wholly with you about the 'quiet 
life', an operating system should be like a graceful host, after the 
introductions they get out of the way so the show can go on. Debian 
does that for me.

F.

-- 
Felmon Davis

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.  -- Dykstra