• Registered: 2011-03-08
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Topic: hello

Good day to this forum. A new user - but probably only for a short time.

I have been looking for a new distro and it was a toss up between # crunch and PCLOS and after reading this post it is most definitely going to be PCLOS!

I just cannot believe how nasty some of the comments in this thread are, I feel very disappointed that a linux forum/community would bad mouth another.  It's absolutely appalling.

After reading this thread I went and spent about 5 hours on the PCLOS forum and thought it was very friendly and very informative.

I did notice they have stickies but from my web searching it seems that PCLOS is often recommended as being good for linux beginners therefore having stickies - in my mind - would be a very good thing.

As for not being able to discuss other distros on the PCLOS forum I can now understand why that rule is in place after reading this thread.

Some of you should be ashamed.

Be postive about your own favourite OS but please don't bring down others.

  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: hello

@justauser - First I must say welcome to the forum. However since you bumped a somewhat old thread, I opted to split and move your post to the appropriate section.

For anyone whos reading this, justauser is referring to this thread:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ve/page/2/

Note: ** Please read before posting **

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  • Registered: 2009-02-28
  • Posts: 313

Re: hello

@justauser

Welcome to the Forum! smile
I perhaps shouldn't be commenting here. Glasshouse and all since I most likely was one of the users you were referring to.

But I stand at what I was trying to convey. The whole concept of "asking questions the smart way" I find pretty condescending. But that's just my opinion.
Perhaps I among others went to far in voicing that opinion or got carried away so fair enough I say.
And you are right it's pretty childish to "bash" another distro. But I did not see that happening in this case.

And speaking about this Forum I have to say it's quite the opposite!
That's why I have to object to the following:

Be postive about your own favourite OS but please don't bring down others.

If you look closer you'll find that this community is very diverse when it comes to their OS and none of them really is putting any of them down.

To put it in another way rest assure that whatever OS/Distro you wind up choosing it really doesn't matter on this forum, as you can engage in any kind of discussion or questions about your favorite Distro no matter what it is.

Trust me! big_smile wink

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  • From: Fort Worth, Texas
  • Registered: 2010-04-07
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Re: hello

justauser wrote:

Some of you should be ashamed..

Was this meant to be constructive?

Yes, we're Linux geeks, and we get somewhat passionate about "our" distro of choice. Maybe we don't always say/type things the way we mean them. It's a fact that I take hit the [edit] button frequently after hitting [submit]

But this forum has been far more kinder, forgiving, knowledgeable, and funny that any other I've had cause to frequent.

Stay or go, that's up to you. But it'll be a cold day in hell before I'm ashamed of anyone here.

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  • Registered: 2009-10-18
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Re: hello

Welcome justauser!  We do hope you'll stay a little longer & get to know the real us.  We really are a friendly bunch, even though we do step in it and put in our foots in our mouth (sometimes in that order yikes ) from time to time.

servingwater wrote:

If you look closer you'll find that this community is very diverse when it comes to their OS and none of them really is putting any of them down.

+1 - I'd say about half the mods here have distros other than CrunchBang as their primary system...although most of those have been "Crunchified". wink

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  • Registered: 2011-02-08
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Re: hello

wait, can we still bash on Windows?

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Re: hello

bobrossw wrote:

wait, can we still bash on Windows?


yeah, it's called cygwin, and you can get it here

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