Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[nooby]

I trust it is all about the individual users point of view.
I got to "know" a person in USA. Complained about slow windows computer I tried to get that person to do a DVD or USB with Puppy to show how fast puppy can be on such computers.

Nope the only way for that person was to buy a new laptop and now them have a fast computer them tells me.

All persons are very different. One need luck too. I have never deeded neither BlueTooth nor To print things.

But I have needed to do things that Puppy do easily and Ubuntu only do if you are on that level of computer savvyness and the Ubuntu people gave up on me when I asked them.
So to me Ubuntu was not easy it was impossible to get going for my purpose. Looking at local TV station streaming of program.

[Marcelo]

[Gonzalo_VC]

And what about the differences between Puppy versions (for the same release): regular Puppy, retro-, and Wary?

I understand the pae / non-pae difference between Precise Puppy and retro-Precise. But when exactly is good to use Wary? How really old and "un-resourceful" a processor should be for us to use Wary; when is still convenient to use the best (pae compliant) version, even if you have a pre-Pentium4 processor.

THANKS!

[geo_c]

I'm going to put this in layman's terms:

Ubuntu is too much like Windows.
It's slow
tries to "protect" you from yourself and others
tries to be all things to all people
it's bloated and cumbersome, but it's hardware compatibility is probably it's strength.

Puppy gives me all of my computers back.
It's portable, like DOS, it actually runs off of a drive, and isn't so dependent on the particular machine to which it's installed.
It's simple to back-up.
and as a bonus it revives your old hardware.

No Contest!

[Gonzalo_VC]