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Help my n00b @$$ choose another distro

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shuiend:
Red Hat 8  has changed alot since Red Hat 7.3 in the GUI's aperance. Gnome and KDE look the same more or less and they dont put correct names for the software. Like Audio player instead of saying xmms. I also had bad experience with Red Hat when i was first starting but as new versions came out it has gotten evern easyer. and for it having to much stuff if you just select workstation as your install type and it should give you most everything you want and not all the server and programming stuff. it also has a nice menu feature that makes it easy to install the things you want on the cd that were on installed during the setup.it also has openoffice in the install so you get that( but i can't find it in my menus any where but hey thats just me)

lazygamer:
That Lycoris just looks soooo friendly, it appears to put XP to shame in the "fischer price" aspect. How could something so retard looking be a bitch for a n00b? Lycoris, here I come!

/puts masculinity in a box for safekeeping

lazygamer:
I tried out Lycoris... well I thought I would try this RH8. You guys recomend it, and Redhat's website has a sweet looking preview. Im just so amazed that something as cryptic as RH 7.3 would magically become a serious Mandrake competitor in one major update.

Refalm:
A friend tried Lycoris... everything works right when when you boot it, but somehow it fucks up the multi boot record...

lazygamer:
Well, I remember that Lycoris does not have the option to install Lilo. WTF is with these Linux vendors, they should not only warn about Grub problems with XP, they should offer Lilo to solve this problem. Remember there is alot of windoids who may be experimenting with Linux on their XP system.

Also, I thought there was quite a lack of extra software. On one hand I hate having to sift through endless rows of package selections, on the other hand, im not just going to Linux for a gaming system(more like I can hardly game with it). Who knows what shit I'll want to do, but I certaintly need easy to get at packages.

Hopefully RH8 allows Lilo, I can't remember how RH7.3 was. Damn, there was an incredible amount of people trying to snag RH8!

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