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On 25/11/10 17:17, jason trunks wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTikQ=Ca4A=pEFee8A22j1zT6vTSvNa=j7Fr_rMC3@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Wow, I really opened up a can of worms there didn't I?!<br>
Sorry! My 'newbie distro' comment was just a casual one, not intended
to start any flame-wars or any overly-serious debates!<br>
<br>
It was just in reference to the way that some people in the *nix
community tend to look down on Ubuntu and Ubuntu users as if they are
inferior! Basically in my own self-deprecating style I was saying to
anybody who might hold that kind of opinion that "Yes, I know you view
me as a clueless fool for using Ubuntu, but I don't care, I happen to
like the OS!" heh heh! :) <br>
<br>
Of course, that's not to say that there actually IS anybody here who
holds that opinion of Ubuntu users!<br>
<br>
Personally I'll use any distro that works best for me and my hardware.
And from a productivity viewpoint; out of of all the distro's I've
tried so far, I find it far quicker to get my preferred development
environment set-up and running in Ubuntu. However, given my history I
don't tend to stick with any distro for TOO long. <br>
I spent a year and a half or so as a Fedora user, then I switched to
OpenSuse for a few months before settling into Ubuntu for just over two
years and counting. And in that entire time I've tried LiveCD's and
installs of countless distros on my test machines. But for some reason,
I always seem to favour the Debian and Debian-derived distro's, Ubuntu
in particular.... I'm not sure what it is about them!<br>
<br>
Oh and in case anybody was wondering, I don't use Linux professionally.
At work I have to use Windows (not my choice!). But I run Linux on all
of my home PCs. I've got a laptop and a tablet PC for my programming
projects and for general family/day to day use (both running Ubuntu for
the last couple of years) and an old desktop and laptop which I use for
trying out different distros and generally tinkering about with. So
I've got plenty of scope to mess around with different flavours of
*nix! (when I have time!)<br>
<br>
Anyway, apologies if I caused any offense or outrage in my previous
post. I assure you none was meant! <br>
And apologies again if there was anything contentious in this post!<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers for now,<br>
Jas.<br>
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I think I unintentionally opened that can or worms, or did I? ;-) To
keep this short and sweet, I think to sum it up you can look at the
communities rather than the distros from a technical perspective. The
Ubuntu forums have a lot of people that really don't know what they're
talking about. You tend to get much better responses on the harder to
use distros. I think the worst thing about Linux (or GNU/Linux if you
prefer) is the tribalism. I think of lot of people forget most of us
either want to get on with our work or watch stupid youtube videos
rather than configure text files or compile X <br>
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