If it's any consolation, I'm a newbie and I actually chose Debian as my first real Linux install even though I heard it was tougher for newbies to learn. To me it represented one of the purest distros of Linux and I don't mind putting in the time/research. A few days ago I installed Ubuntu on the girlfriend's laptop and my (admittedly very limited) Debian knowledge came in handy. I even chose "Clearlooks" under Preferences->Appearance for her laptop, so that she gets accustomed to a standard Debian Gnome desktop environment as it is my plan to eventually get her over to Debian. Muahahaha (evil laugh).
Mark On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Javier Barroso <javibarr...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Michael Pobega<pob...@fuzzydev.org> > wrote: > > On 0, Javier Barroso <javibarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Tim Beauregard<tim.beaureg...@sky.com> > wrote: > >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> > Hash: SHA1 > >> > > >> > I recently re-subscribed having been off for about four years. The > >> > changes I have noticed are: > >> > > >> > 1. Much less traffic. I previously got 250+ posts per day. Now > 50-100. > >> > Could this be due to the development of ubuntu? > >> > >> After read this thread, only to be informative, from ubuntu-users > >> bird, debian-user has more posts until now (2004-10 - 2009-07): > >> > >> DEB: 192759 > >> UBU: 189287 > >> > >> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/about > >> > > > > Yeah, but you have to keep in mind that Ubuntu's mailing list isn't the > > community's main way of keeping in touch. They use their forums[2] more > than > > anything. > > > > [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/ > > Of course, there winning them :). I don't like forums, but I recognize > that ubuntu forums are very useful (and responsive). They win even > linuxquestion.org!! > > DEB: 16405 members, 39581 threads, 239727 posts > UBU: 881,910 members, 1114360 threads, 7131124 posts > LQ: 411919 members, 736562 threads, 3615492 posts > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
