Debian is not for everybody. It is not newbie friendly and the community does not embrace change nor new users. They want to keep things the way they always were and even turn back the clock. They do not like it that Ubuntu has taken their work and made it accessible to others. That does not make Debian a great distribution. It just means that Debian is what it is and it isn't going to change anytime soon because of its ideology and its user base. If someone insists on using Debian then they should be encouraged to do so, but it isn't what I would recommend because I know the community well and know that they are on a crusade and to them all outsiders are regarded as infidels. If you can accept the "our way or the highway" approach then you will probably fit right in.
When someone writes that they are having problems configuring Debian then I smile inwardly because it is not made to work out of the box, nor to work like Ubuntu with advanced features. It is for advanced users who like a basic setup. It will likely never work as well because of their insistence that anything proprietary is bad and if you ask for help doing something that they regard as verboten the you will get a lecture at best and a tongue lashing at worst. Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 5 February 2011 17:01, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 07:27:37PM -0000, Paul wrote: > > > > > > > > Mint is apt based, but it's not Debian! Would be a funny way to troll > #debian though on irc.freenode.net ha ha! Something tells me the regs and > opers wouldn't be quite as amused though ... I'm having problems with my > Debian Mint can anyone help me? On a good day I could see that one earning a > user an instant kick ban! > > > > There is now a version of Mint based on Debian. While the vast majority > of Mint users are probably inexperienced folks who should stay away from > Debian irc, no doubt there are some, as I've seen with Ubuntu, highly > experienced folks who have simply gotten tired of going through various > configurations and like something that just works out of the box. > > > Although possibly you meant it as an extraneous diagnostic technique in > which case my apologies. I have to use that Debian Mint one on the boys > though. Too funny! > > > > Debian people seem to have little to no sense of humor, however, so > probably a waste of electrons. As my mom once said, It's easy to be > funny at someone else's expense, and going Hah Hah, look as those l4m3 > n3bi3$ isn't really considered a sense of humor. > > As for Joan, quite possibly she simply misread, or was offering an > alternative solution. I haven't been following this particular thread. > > -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > Spike: If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was > actually there it would've been like Woodstock. I was at > Woodstock. I fed off a flower person and I spent six hours > watching my hand move. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
