A Linux for the totally maintenance free

Roger arelem at bigpond.com
Tue Oct 28 10:45:07 UTC 2014


On 28/10/14 18:54, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 07:26 AM, Tim wrote:
>
>> If a new user is going to ask a support question of someone, or their
>> ISP, which Linux distro do you think they're most likely to get an
>> answer about?
>
> That one "you" are best familiar with? I mean, if you installed the 
> OS/distro for a user, this user's first point of contact will be "you".
>
> Also, provided what the OP said, I doubt any "internet help" would be 
> of use or even be "comprehensible" to his user ("the lady").
>
> In that sense, I would not choose the OS the "public" is recommending, 
> but would choose to install the OS, which I think would cater the 
> "user's" demands and which I feel sufficiently experienced to be able 
> to answer questions on rsp. I feel able to step-in "in case".
>
> Ralf
>
I would agree with Ralf mainly because it's you who will be the point of 
call for the first year or so.
Roger


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