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Hey Gavin,<br>
<br>
No flame wars here. I'd be considered a noob by most pluggers, as I
just can't seem to find the time to get under the hood and rip
everything apart. But I did want to build a discourse on some of the
points you made. <br>
<br>
1/ I've kinda gotten used to the baby-poo brown default setting. It's
camp, I like it! I was initially a fan of KDE (in my RedHat days) until
I started using gnome and noticed the 30 second time difference in
startups between each environment. Now I'm a gnome convert.<br>
<br>
2/ As a noob, I really like the limited initial install options. Less
chance of something going wrong with a non-standard setup.<br>
<br>
3/ Minimal initial install packages gives me a basic setup with nothing
extraneous, and I then add things as I need them via synaptic.
Obviously your point about dialup is very valid. When I want to try out
a new application to see if I like it, it's nothing to pull it down
with broadband and then discard it if it didn't suit my requirements.
And I certainly wouldn't have shrugged my shoulders and pressed
"Upgrade" last week on synaptic if I wasn't using broadband.<br>
<br>
And yes, Ubuntu is the only distro that has been faultless with
detecting hardware. Especially after reading the posts of some people
with terrifying SATA problems. Ubuntu is probably the closest distro to
Windows usability that I've experienced. <br>
<br>
Jason<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Gavin Chester wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Okay, I'll bite ;-) I don't want to buy into a distro war because in
the end it all comes down to personal preference. As I said before, I
was focused on Fedora becasue that is what K2LTSP is built on. I
currently favour SuSE because I think it efficiently marries
newbie-friendliness with a suite of powerful (graphic) management tools
for the more experienced ... and all the command line tools are there
for the _really_ experienced ;-) Add to that the standard distro comes
with HEAPS of packages and it has won me over.
I think Ubuntu is a great project and made even better by all the
spin-off projects. However, I currently find the stock Ubuntu hard to
like because:
1/ it boots with 'orange' gnome as standard (blah). I much prefer Xfce.
2/ it gives you little choice of install options (at least that are
obvious to newbies). I like to have more control over what is installed
where (now, many of you will probably reply with a host of installer
option codes ;-) I said "obvious to newbies")
3/ it comes with precious few packages. I like to have a kitchen-sink
approach because I'm on dialup and don't want to spend the next couple
of weeks downloading all the extra packages I want :-(
Having said that, I agree that Ubuntu's hardware detection has been good
in my limited experience of it.
Please don't flame my personal preference - it is bound to be different
to your's ;-)
Gavin
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