Oh come on people!
You've seen the forums! "Mandrake destroys CDROM!" "Mandrake won't activate the network!" "Mandrake won't compile application XYZ!".
If I klled a man for every problem with Mandrake I would most likly be left alone to be the last human being.

Why the hell do you recommand people to use it anyways? I'd recommand Mandrake only for people I really hate.

Because its a relatively easy distrobution to start with. I personally have never used it, but Linux is Linux, its just a different flavor. If you mess something up, its your fault.

Its actually very nice.

Bite me.

No need to flame. It's all personal opinion. This thread is stupid.

Mandrake is probably the best distro I used, since it has everything I ever would need and more. Also, I highly recommend it. Period.

I try mandrake 10 and it still look like 8.2 And the one thing that make me mad is there no pppoe in iso you download.

Because French chicks go topless at the beach and Mandrake is giving away a free Nice vacation to their 1,000,000th customer.

If you can't get something to work, post it and we will try to help. That's what this community is for.

Off-hand, I for one don't appreciate you making a post discrediting the Mandrake user's reasons for using it. If you are going to ask "Why the hell" we [Mandrake users] suggest Mandrake, maybe you [Windows Junky] should read the rest of the posts. Mandrake 10 Community is NOT supposed to be used for work or doing important things like taxes or whatever. Mandrake 10 Community is only a "rc" (if you will). If you want a stable version of Mandrake, try 9.2.

My suggestion to you is:
Don't come into a forum where people ask questions to get help and then say what we do is pointless. You are rude and inconsiderate - you don't see me going to a Windows support forum flaming Windows and how it's pointless to help others.

Just my $.02

I'm using 10.0 and I haven't encountered any major bugs/problems whatsoever (in gnome, KDE is a different story, but then again I don't use it), everything works fine atm. (and 9.2 worked fine too) Sure there are a lot of patches but there arent many distros that use 2.6 kernel and are fairly user friendly. Mandrake also has some nice tools like urpmi

I am running Slackware 9.1/current and now Mandrake 10. I love the fact that EVERYTHING worked out of the box. I have instant printer, configured monitor and video card, DVD movies play, gphoto2 worked with my digital camera the 1st time I used it, KDE 3.2 works flawlessly, Sound card worked with no extra configuring, DSL worked on first boot, cdroms and burners worked perfectly with no additional configuring, terminal commands are there if I need them or feel like getting dirty but not necessary every day like in other distro's I try.

I also see that you have Fedora listed in your name. You had to do alot more work out of the box to configure it to play movies and MP3's. Fedora also has CDrom problems (IE.. cdroms getting stuck and not ejecting). No distro is perfect, they all have their quirks.

I have never had a cdrom blowup or an ethernet problem. infact, I use the Gimp, Mozilla, Openoffice and Mozilla Mail and print to my HP T45xi daily with Mandrake 10 and it just works every single time.

In Slack I had to set up Alsa, Cups, Netconfig, lilo, and modify fstab for dvdrom, mkdir for /mnt/dvd, download totem or XINE and install Nvidia drivers before I could even begin using it. Don't get me wrong, I love Slackware but Mandrake works perfectly everytime I need it and is great PR when I can install it on a friend's machine and it works on first boot.


---Frank

i'm a bit of a slack lover, too, and i agree with Frank_Drebin. if i were the only one using the pc at home then i would probably have slackware instead, but mandrake is just so much easier to install/configure/use for newbies. i mean, i think i'll have a pretty hard time convincing my mom that linux is just as easy to use as windows if i told her to manually edit a config file in order to change a certain setting... as for fedora, i haven't really tried any red hat/fedora distro since my rather traumatic experience with RH7.2, but not having MP3 support out of the box is really bad.

If this thread was started to just start a flame, it will be closed. If it has some enlightened message behind it and you can prove it in a constructive manner, let us know as I see this classified as an unconstructive post that really and truly has no meaning yet so far but to cause a stir.

Regards.

PS. I find it quite sad that I double posted my message above in another thread just like this one, just someone who seems bitter about something and feels they need to bash it in an unconstructive way. Hmmm....!

mandrake is really one of the best distros

having just done a flawless install of v10 with none of the reported problems that abound at the moment i can heartily recommend it

poor old me only has a compaq presario 6011 but it's looking like that might be why I've had the experience I have had

I for one will continue to use mandrake as I have found it to be FAR superior to the other distros I've tried (5 versions of redhat, 2 versions of slack and suse 9.0)

every OS has problems, find the one that "sits right" for you and stick with it
ain't no point in trashing what you don't like

Mandrake is great. I have installed a lot of linux distros -- I've built linux from scratch before and intend to again. I've installed Debian hurd, and slackware (which I liked a great deal), and gentoo which is really nice. But whenever I have a blank pc and need to install an OS I always start with Mandrake, because I want to get to using the computer, not playing with the operating system.

With Mandrake, you take 15 minutes to install and you're done, you can get to work. With Debian or Slackware it would be at least hours and possibly a day or more before I finished getting everything set up. Gentoo would take a week just to get everything compiled, and LFS, of course, takes a very long time indeed. So I like playing with those distros, because I enjoy messing with my computer -- but when I don't have time for that, I go back to Mandrake.

I admit that sometimes it can be frustrating after the total control you have with the likes of LFS and gentoo, having Mandrake try to protect you. But it's still the best distro to introduce newbies, and I find myself spending more time in it than not, regardless. That's largely because it's working better on my athlon64 than the other distros right now -- not that Gentoo couldn't work just as well, but I'm too lazy to spend the effort getting it there, when mdk Just Works (tm).

If so many people didn't use mdk, all of these 'bad distro' problems would never come to light.

Set 100 monkeys installing 100 distros for 100 years and one of them will break their cd rom drive.