Debian is absultly wonderful after the peripherals have been set up. It 
is much better than anything else I have have played with (though I have 
not played with slack). SO
Debian install= pain in the ass
knoppix frontend for debian install= easy
debian after setup= great


Thanasis Kinias wrote:

> scripsit David Mandala:
> 
>>My point exactly, Knoppix is far more friendly, and detects far more
>>hardware correctly, that said it suffers from the same problems as
>>Debian, since it is Debian. Once you go past the good features of
>>Knoppix you are back in Debian hell. Debian is just not user friendly.
> 
> 
> and earlier:
> 
> 
>>Debian is on of the hardest versions of Linux to get correctly installed
>>and configured.
> 
> 
> My question, though, was what about Debian makes it hard to use _after_
> it is installed and configured.  Assume (for the sake of argument) that
> a jinni does the installation for you and does your XF86Config-4...  
>