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Most linux users start on Redhat/Fedora, and quickly leave due to the pain that is RPM. I left to gentoo. Most others take the debian/ubuntu path.
by aclevernickname 13y ago
Most linux users start on Redhat/Fedora, and quickly leave due to the pain that is RPM. I left to gentoo. Most others take the debian/ubuntu path.
- mindcrime 13y agoThat might have been the received wisdom a decade ago, but YUM/RPM work about as well as apt-get now, and - to be quite honest - I prefer YUM. I like, for example, that I use the same command to search for packages as to install them, instead of having to remember that on Ubuntu it's "apt-cache search FOO" instead. shrug YMMV.
- aclevernickname 13y agoperhaps my previous post was too polite. People that never actually _care_ to learn linux go from Redhat to Ubuntu (or stay right where they are!). People with an interest in the OS itself move to Gentoo/Funtoo/LFS. I still use CentOS to this day (Asterisk), it's painful.