On Wednesday 16 April 2014 06:25:19 Felmon Davis wrote:
> 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 I haven't actually run it for a while, so I may be out of date,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,

???
 
Lisi
> 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.