On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:11:49 +0800, Guenther Boelter wrote:
On 12/18/2010 01:04 AM, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running Fedora14 on all machines, including my wife's -- and I'm the nearest (distant) thing there is to tech support.
What's wrong with Fedora in that case, what do you think is the benefit of using CentOS instead?
Fair question, for which thanks.
First off, Les Mikesell's point below. I keep fairly near current, installing new Fedora releases a week to a month after they come out, chiefly because that's when I have the best chance that some Friendly Alpha Plus Technoid (FAPT) will notice any Very Dumb Question (VDQ) of mine. All that takes a lot of time and mental effort -- which she, being more outdoor oriented (as I used to be), has no interest in. I'm getting almighty tired of it myself, despite my interest.
What's more, as a linguist and erstwhile mathematician, and one who's been following lists, LUGs, etc., etc., for a dozen years, I've picked up enough of the argot to ask questions in relatively brief and not totally unfamiliar ways -- enough so that most do usually get read. That's another interest she leaves to me.
Also, a side-effect of using the argot is that many or most of those who reply overestimate my actual savvy -- as is true of maybe half the ten posts in this thread so far. (The ratio is substantially more favorable here than in many of my electronic hang-outs, I'm glad to say.) Then I have to ask for elucidations. Nothing wrong with that, while I last, but still more reason to find her something that she'll have far less occasion to ask about.
For the likes of me, whether Fedora "breaks things" is a very oversimplified question. Maybe, despite my greater interest and experience (than my wife's, at least), *I'm* breaking most of them -- certainly some. (I do tinker, trying to emulate an amorous porcupine the while ...)
I'll stop here for now, just because this is getting long.