Newbies are Not Laboratory Rats!
Submitted by dixiedancer on February 20, 2010 - 12:57pm
I've been badly embarrassed twice already for introducing newcomers to Linux with a buggy, unstable distro (which I won't name - this is not a flame post).
Beta software is fun for people who are willing to test it and trouble themselves to fix it or find a workaround. Voluntarily. Such people are seldom newcomers to Linux! Any distro that calls itself "beginner friendly" should not include Beta software as the default for booting, managing sound or video, etc.
So that's why I'm here, using Mepis both for myself and to introduce my friends to Linux. There's no Beta software to mystify or frustrate newbies, who are already quite uneasy already at first. It's Debian Stable for goodness sakes, with a gorgeous, flawless, effortless implementation of the easiest desktop in Linux.
Shame, shame, shame on those big popular distro developers who rush a so-called "beginner friendly" release to market with Beta software in it! Newbies are not to be treated as unwitting laboratory rats, to test unproven, immature software.
So, this is my first rant. I'm so glad to have found Mepis!
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