Mageia in comparison between 10 distros of site Pcworld-pl

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Mageia in comparison between 10 distros of site Pcworld-pl

Postby macxi » Nov 13th, '12, 23:52

Hi,

The site Pcworld of Poland published a comparison between 10 distros. The Mint and Mageia are in first and second places, like in Distrowatch

See comparison site polish: Linux nie taki straszny? - Translation: Linux is not so bad?
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Re: Mageia in comparison between 10 distros of site Pcworld

Postby wobo » Nov 14th, '12, 06:15

Well, this comparison is rather simple. They just added the "stars" of each section without taking into account that one section may have more weight than the other.
Adding users is a section which does not say anything at all because its result may have different reasons, even reasons which are not related to the quality of the distribution, f.ex. a large number of Kubuntu users may just be Ubuntu users with a crush on KDE.

IMHO it's not much more than the Distrowatch ranking.
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Re: Mageia in comparison between 10 distros of site Pcworld

Postby oj » Nov 14th, '12, 17:41

It looks like they tested with default settings. Fedora would be low on any measure of usability because of SEL being enabled by default. Once disabled, connecting shares and printers is as easy as any decent system, eg drakx tools. So I agree with wobo, the measures used seem rather subjective. It might be better to measure the amount of time, number of steps, number of edits and the like, that it takes to get from install to whatever-end result, eg remote printing, samba shares etc.

In that case fedora would sink back down to the 'unfriendly' end of the spectrum (where it does belong) due to the extra steps of disabling or uninstalling SELinux.

Regardless, Mageia does belong near the top of any measure of usability. I know people love their Mint, but in my experience Mageia is much better than Mint in every respect.
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