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>