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slam - 23.11.2006, 12:35 Uhr
Titel: Are More Choices Really Better?

Please vote - my comment (and may others) can be found here.
Greetings,
Chris

titan - 23.11.2006, 12:56 Uhr
Titel: RE: Are More Choices Really Better?

Chris, we all know you don,t like a certain other distro and a lot of us agree, from the various other posts in this forum but what is the point of this. The answer depends on each individuals criteria, so will vary, there is no right answer. Any poll is only as relevant as the questions. Your real question seems to be a choice between Ubuntu ( and Gnome ? ) and most other Distros which is a bit of a no brainer on the Kanotix forum.

hey_ian - 23.11.2006, 13:51 Uhr
Titel: RE: Are More Choices Really Better?

Choice is good, but it is not good if a system becomes untidy because of too many progs for the same task, e.g. aMSN, Kopete, SIM and GAIM on one system as IMs.

bluewater - 23.11.2006, 14:56 Uhr
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Self selecting.. so results are /dev/nul

and choice for what ::: coffee brand x over cofffee brand xx over coffee xxx n=1000 or tea n=1000

http://en.wsikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

(grins)

piper - 23.11.2006, 21:50 Uhr
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Or you can look at it like M$ does, NO CHOICE Winken

mylo - 23.11.2006, 22:04 Uhr
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a sensefree poll?

slam - 23.11.2006, 22:27 Uhr
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Hm, this forum is too clever for stupid polls. Winken

Greetings,
Chris

Cathbard - 24.11.2006, 02:13 Uhr
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This forum definitely isn't slashdot hey? On slashdot, the moral implications of a snail climbing over a rock would generate 27 pages of arguments.

I don't want to make choices. The TV does all my thinking. Tell me what to do oh magic box and I will blindly obey. Winken

kanotixrules - 24.11.2006, 12:14 Uhr
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More choices are better, as long as there's other choices besides Micro$oft

mzilikazi - 24.11.2006, 21:57 Uhr
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Well only 1 choice is fine for everyone. As long as we can make it ourselves. Winken

Klenje - 25.11.2006, 18:21 Uhr
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I agree with hey_ian; more choices are good but in certain case it's better to make a choice and focus your work on it

analogtek - 25.11.2006, 22:18 Uhr
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Choice is good but, all distros are bloated. We need a few installer rules all could follow. Someone said in passing, that even linux distros are victim to M$ bloat problem's. What is needed is just a simple install menu of option's. From just the kernal and a shell of choice (bash-korn ect ect) to I WANT IT ALL!! and of course someplace in between. This even could be extended to any DVD of a collection of distro's. We like controlled control. Even more choice's is a good thing!!

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Gowator - 26.11.2006, 13:47 Uhr
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analogtek hat folgendes geschrieben::

I have to presume you haven't installed Debian.

At some point you have to decide what packages you want...
there are several ways to do this....
netinstall will have you make them at the install time...
Kanotix gives you the chance to try before you decide.... so you get 2GB of apps pre-installed with the chance to deinstall what you don't want or reinstall something you do.

Whichever of these methods you decide to use you still have to choose at some point.

AlexB - 09.12.2006, 05:27 Uhr
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Choices can be confusing in some instances and that usually complicates decisions.
Choices can also be made up, when in reality there is no difference between choices.
True Choices are empowering and good to have.

Debian Vs FreeBSD can be choices, or Mac vs Windows are true choices and good to have.
Sometimes things that are very similar, can be presented as further choices, but here it's more of a matter of taste rather than "Choices" and we all know tastes can be very different even in the same family.