[members at lugog] Introduction:

[Jake Davies]

On 25/11/10 17:17, jason trunks wrote:
> Wow, I really opened up a can of worms there didn't I?!
> Sorry! My 'newbie distro' comment was just a casual one, not intended 
> to start any flame-wars or any overly-serious debates!
>
> 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! :)
>
> Of course, that's not to say that there actually IS anybody here who 
> holds that opinion of Ubuntu users!
>
> 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.
> 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!
>
> 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!)
>
> Anyway, apologies if I caused any offense or outrage in my previous 
> post. I assure you none was meant!
> And apologies again if there was anything contentious in this post!
>
>
> Cheers for now,
> Jas.
>
>
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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

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DAV09111955
D. Jake Davies

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