Distribuion hopping [Was: Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11]

["Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand inf utfsm cl>]

Mark <markg85 gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Richard Körber <fedora ml shredzone de>
> wrote:

[...]

> > But seriously, who cares? If you dislike the folder/browser view, just
> > configure it the way you like it. How often do you need to reconfigure
> > your Gnome? My Gnome settings are a couple of years old now.

> then you keep your dist long. i mostly install (or re-install) my
> linux once every 2 months on several pc's and that's to try out new
> releases of various distributions.

Don't worry, that normally goes away soon.

[Trying out every new distribution under the sun means  you never get to
 really know any one (and thus you won't be able to use it fully). Plus you
 lose lots of time in relearning/redoing stuff (you note that above).
 Thankfully, all distributions are built out of more or less the same
 packages, so it isn't that any one is spectacularly better (or worse) than
 the rest, which one you pick is not worth agonizing over...]

> then changing the same things all over again (going that way for years
> now) is getting irritating.

Years... then yours is a specially complex case...

I'd suggest you try staying put for at least one full Fedora lifetime (here
or somewhere else, but stay put).

Good luck!
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