isadora wrote:A very warm welcome to the Mageia-forum Goh Lip!!!
Enjoy Mageia and the community, and if..........some spare is left, please take a look at:
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/
Thanks for the warm welcome, and that's why I'm here. But I better feel my way slowly at first, being 'new again' (maybe getting Alzheimer's ?) despite using Mandrake and Suze in the past. Installation was easy and breezy enough as expected (from my past experience) and would make a great start for any new 'convert' to linux. However, installing proprietary (nvidia in my case) drivers would be difficult for them. For
slightly more experienced users that want to dual boot with other linux distros, mix of uid's (500 vs 1000) may pose a problem to share data across partitions - I use separate partitions for data and another for configuration files to synchronize (by s-links) across distro's . But, as I said, I'm here to help and I repeat, Mageia is great start for new linux users who use a single linux distro (and windows, but who needs it anyway).
I have no problem personally with any issue and I feel like I'm back home (comfortable, relaxed and beer in hand).
Good points? plenty...no real need for command lines, clean, intuitive, easy to use for inexperienced users, easily modifiable to suit experienced users and this from the guys who popularized KDE in the first place. (thanks)
Some gripes?....sure, if we want to be picky.....er....slower startups - 'reconfiguration requests by administrator' - and grub-legacy....nope, that's it.
Why do we live? To prove not everything in nature has a purpose.