On 04/25/2010 12:44 PM, Michael Moore wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Bruce<kd7...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I landed in the Kubuntu environment. Kubuntu 9.10, in my experience, >> fell flat on it's ISO. I assumed it was growing pains of the latest >> KDE. I installed Ubuntu on my "it has to work" machine and then used >> the other laptop to tinker with 10.04 (starting with Alpha 2) of both >> Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Neither seems to be very spectacular in what it >> does. I haven't had any major problems, though I am far from a power user. >> > My thought: Ubuntu might not be the best choice for an "it has to > work" machine. That's not to insult or disparage Ubuntu, it's just a > reflection of Ubuntu being a reasonably bleeding-edge distro, akin to > Fedora. Any bleeding-edge anything is likely to have some bugs& > burps that creep into the shiny and new. Often, the problems that > distros get blamed for are the result of bugs (or, design decisions or > implementation changes that might be controversial) upstream, as Drew > already mentioned with regard to the missing xorg.conf. To some > extent, it is the responsibility of distros to put together a fully > functioning whole, but in practice there are so many moving parts that > it simply isn't possibly to be up-to-the-minute and completely free of > sometimes show-stopping bugs or usability issues. And when upstream > devs do something that annoys a lot of users, it's always the > bleeding-edge distro's users that get exposed to the annoyance first. > > Personally, I'd stay with something that doesn't prioritize the latest > and greatest over stability or usability for an "it has to work" > machine -- especially in light of your unsatisfying experience with > KDE/Kubuntu. In the Debian universe, there is nothing more stable > than Debian stable itself. In the Red Hat universe, many here have > talked about Scientific Linux or CentOS. > > Michael M. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > My version of an "it has to work" is simply email, browser, & sky.fm/smooth jazz player.
The most important thing I do is moderate an email discussion list. To date, Ubuntu has caused me no hardships. Fedora, for the short time I had it installed, seemed rock solid under my conditions. Debian deserves another try. I admittedly got frustrated with it when I tried it some time back. Don't remember what it was that I stumbled with, but it wasn't worth the time then. Thanks for the input! Bruce _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
