[Lincoln LUG] Distros

[tom bruton]

all the power is still there, just need to what to find it where as in some
other distros you have to find it. I can see the advantages of both


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Dave Briggs <dave at kindofdigital.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the responses, chaps.
>
> Think I'll give Debian a go then - and if I don't get anywhere I can
> always fall back on Ubuntu.
>
> It's an interesting debate around Ubuntu I feel because the road they are
> going down (more user convenience and less user control) strikes me as
> being somewhat antithetical to the whole point of running a free operating
> system in the first place.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:30 PM, tom bruton <tombruton87 at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> 6 months ago I hated Ubuntu mainly because of unity. However now it has
>> won my heart for a few reasons, the Ubuntu store has really matured
>> , good place to find software makes installing all your programs at 1st
>> setup really quick.
>>
>> Lenses are now customizable(used to be just amazon), meaning you can
>> integrate Ebay, Facebook twitter and a host of other things on the desktop.
>> find it really useful to check stuff on Ebay on there.
>>
>> It looks good, in my opinion the best looking version of Linux about at
>> the moment, however looks are subjective.
>>
>> Has a large user base, so you get alot of community support.
>>
>> you can sync all your online accounts with the OS which is pretty cool,
>> also when you go on certain websites it also integrates with those sites
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Neal Quincey <neal.quincey at googlemail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Shouldn't be too painful to try Debian, there is an Ubuntu version of
>>> the XPS13 and if you have a spare hard drive it would be safe to try on
>>> that.
>>>
>>> Neal
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 14:08 +0100, Dave Briggs wrote:
>>> > Thought it may be a good idea to start up a bit of a holy war :-)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I've a new laptop on the way and am wanting to put Linux on it and for
>>> > it to become my main machine (leaving my Mac behind...).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > So, distro choice. Ubuntu seems to be the default choice for a lot of
>>> > folk, but I'm not a fan of various things they are doing, including
>>> > the ads in search results, the forcing of Ubuntu One down your throat,
>>> > and so on. Don't personally find Unity that offensive as it happens.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Other seem to like Mint which seems to take the best bits of Ubuntu
>>> > while stripping out the annoying stuff - am I right?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I'd really like to give Debian a proper go, but I do worry that it
>>> > won't support the hardware in the laptop (it's a Dell XPS 13) without
>>> > difficulty.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > What are people's thoughts?
>>> >
>>> > Dave
>>> >
>>> >
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