Knoppix - the Great Linux Advocate

Posted May 16, 2003 17:31 UTC (Fri) by max_lehrer (guest, #11269)
Parent article: Knoppix - the Great Linux Advocate

I have only been using Linux for 10 minutes. And I am totally hooked forever. Thanks to Knoppix.
Let me explain how Knoppix is the best promotional Linux distribution ever.
(as if I were familiar with the other ones).
I am quite a ripe Windows user due to circumstance rather than choice, and have been flirting with the idea of trying Linux for two years or more.
I have been however following websites for a while, and when a nix-addict friend of mine who is a network admin just failed to get over to my place and help with an install, I said "enough".
After reading a great deal about choices, I decided on KNOPPIX simply because the risk of messing up any disk partition or network stuff (not just a home desktop) was zero.
Since I have 3 differrent HDD installed, with multiple logical partitions and no time or desire to back up many gigs of stuff, I threw in the CD and booted.
It felt as "knoppy" as my first boot of the menuet OS (www.menuetos.org)
After 10 minutes I am exhilarating and wanted to explain this now and not in 10 years when I will have to remember how it felt.
Even though this may not be the only version or the one I will still be using in 10 years it needs to be further supported because it frees users of any commitment fears or precaution reluctance that may be holding one back when not affording to mess with the computer in front of him.
Don't worry, be knoppy.
Forever knopped.