(But Ubuntu is Debian - argument ensues)<br>I won't be correcting you, I think both the Fedora and Ubuntu team's have done an excellent job of just getting things to 'work'.<br>I'm not an expert on compiling and to me it's really frustrating to find common applications or packages that I HAVE to compile for my kernel, to often find using make && makefile has errors or something goes... I just don't have the time for it.<br>
<br>I use Linux as a Desktop environment myself as well, and it has come time to buy a Laptop (my work is forcing me to use one) - I think I may make the switch to a Mac Book. Besides being able to develop in Cocoa you can run Windows, and Linux on a Mac ... <br>
<br>I'm sure there will be the onslaught of people telling me why Debian, or Slackware are more fit distributions... but maybe I'm not 1337 enough to handle them ;) .<br>People can argue that Lisp is the greatest logic language ever to be written, and yet for some reason none of my co-workers know what it is.<br>
<br>In the end the more popular open source projects seem to have popularity for a reason, especially without formal advertising.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Collin Kidder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adderd@kkmfg.com">adderd@kkmfg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So... I had been using x86_64 Arch Linux on my laptop for quite some<br>
time. I decided I'd like a change so I downloaded and installed Ubuntu<br>
8.10, Debian 4.0r5, and Fedora 10 beta. I tried the 64 bit version of each.<br>
<br>
I'm somewhat shocked but of all four distros I found only Ubuntu to<br>
really be to my liking.<br>
<br>
Arch was great for tweaking and is always on the bleeding edge but has a<br>
fairly small community and seems better for people who really want to<br>
tweak linux a lot. I'm over that, I just want to develop apps in linux<br>
and use it for my desktop.<br>
<br>
Debian was total garbage. Absolutely nothing worked right at all. The nv<br>
and nvidia drivers were totally borked in Debian and could not find the<br>
LCD on my laptop at all. The other three distros had no such trouble.<br>
Debian also did not like my 3945 wireless card. Maybe Debian is a great<br>
distro if it works on your hardware but they screwed the pooch bad for<br>
my hardware.<br>
<br>
Fedora was actually pretty good and I liked that SELinux was actually<br>
all setup and enabled. I would have probably stuck with it had I not<br>
been an idiot and downloaded the prerelease version 10. That caused<br>
problems. But, I didn't see an appreciable difference between Ubuntu and<br>
Fedora except that Ubuntu has a lot more packages available.<br>
<br>
So, in the end I just could find no really good reason NOT to use Ubuntu<br>
and it works just fine. Seems to me that maybe the arguments against it<br>
are either old and expired or just based on Elitism. Correct me if I'm<br>
wrong.<br>
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