Ubuntu

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 11:33, Bruce Labitt wrote:
> Seriously, now.  Why Ubuntu vs straight Debian?  Ubuntu has worked at
> making the average-user experience easier, is that it?

I think that's it.  I run Debian Stable as my desktop/laptop OS of choice.  
It's outdated, but I pull a few select desktop apps from backports or 
third-party sources.  Things like Firefox and OpenOffice, for example, are 
not likely to cause dependency issues with other things for example.  Things 
like KDE, I just use the distribution version.  It doesn't look as pretty, 
but when I get around to upgrading, I'm sure it won't stand in my way either.  
I'm behind the times, but I can be efficient just the same.  

When I decided to put Linux on my wife's laptop for her, I used Ubuntu.  It 
has GUI configs for things like network interfaces, whereas I never installed 
any in my machines because I'm just too comfortable 
editing /etc/network/interfaces.  I'm stuck in my ways and don't see anything 
wrong with that.  I'm sure she would.  She gets Ubuntu.  I made a machine for 
my grandfather and wanted it to be pretty and new.  He got an Ubuntu box and 
barely has asked any questions about it.  Just seems to work and he can find 
everything he's looked for.  I absolutely know that both would hate to be 
left at my desktop or laptop expecting to accomplish anything.
-N