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Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Mon Jun 6 07:38:44 UTC 2005


> 
> That said, currently two problems that would stop me installing Fedora
> for very non-technical users:
> 
> - Auto update is not reliable/graphical enough, or never has been for me.
>   Maybe it's fixed in FC4.
> - Auto update breaks nvidia drivers every few weeks

well the moment you use the (probably illegal) nvidia binary drivers you
gave up all advantages of open source already. Especially on the
security front, binary drivers have a really bad reputation and history
there.

> 
> If Fedora was more like Ubuntu in these aspects (fully graphical/automatic
> auto update, supporting nvidia drivers out of the box) I'd be confident
> enough to install it for a friend and then go away on holiday or
> whatever, and not come back expecting trouble. 

so don't install the binary drivers.

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