On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:15 -0400, Tom H wrote: > Somehow, I find your claim that neither OpenSUSE nor Ubuntu will start > being installed "on most machines" difficult to believe... > > My personal experience is that Ubuntu boots and performs well, > including PA, on the three laptops (mine and my parents') on which > I've installed it.
Personally I never had an issue with installing Suse and Ubuntu, but I had an issue with one version of Ubuntu Studio, so I installed Ubuntu and then the meta packages for the studio version. BUT I also experienced issues with Debian, Ubuntu and several Non-German distros, when setting up xorg.conf perfectly, since there are no calculators in the web available, that know the German vendor names and types for identically constructed monitors, that have other names in other countries. Suse ships with IIRC it's called SaX and this app did know my monitors, so I had to install Suse to get my 64 Studio (Debian and Ubuntu based versions) and my Debians and Ubuntus able to use my monitors in the way I needed them. I belief my experiences more than a statistic, however: "Operating Systems 1 Windows 7 44.12% 2 Windows XP 27.06% 3 Apple OS X 8.66% 4 iOS 7.09% 5 Windows Vista 6.95% 6 Android 2.49% 7 Linux 1.75% 8 BlackBerry 0.64% 9 Windows 8 0.19% 10 SymbianOS 0.19%" - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php The cause for this are not technical issues only, but also a lot of hype. BUT technical issues are one major issue. For example I don't experienced this: "Web Browsers 1 Chrome 20 24.37% 2 Internet Explorer 9 12.16% 3 Internet Explorer 8 10.75% 4 Safari 5.1 9.31% 5 Firefox 13 9.07% 6 Firefox 14 6.55% 7 Internet Explorer 7 4.71% 8 Android 4 2.16% 9 Safari 5 1.97% 10 Firefox 12 1.92%" Most "averaged" people here use Firefox on Windows and not IE. Reading Linux mailing lists I belief that Chrom(ium) today might be as wide spread used as Firefox is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1344275817.1277.172.camel@localhost.localdomain
