[GRLUG] The battle of the distros

[Ben DeMott]

(But Ubuntu is Debian - argument ensues)
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'.
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.

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 ...

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 ;) .
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.

In the end the more popular open source projects seem to have popularity for
a reason, especially without formal advertising.


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:

> So... I had been using x86_64 Arch Linux on my laptop for quite some
> time. I decided I'd like a change so I downloaded and installed Ubuntu
> 8.10, Debian 4.0r5, and Fedora 10 beta. I tried the 64 bit version of each.
>
> I'm somewhat shocked but of all four distros I found only Ubuntu to
> really be to my liking.
>
> Arch was great for tweaking and is always on the bleeding edge but has a
> fairly small community and seems better for people who really want to
> tweak linux a lot. I'm over that, I just want to develop apps in linux
> and use it for my desktop.
>
> Debian was total garbage. Absolutely nothing worked right at all. The nv
> and nvidia drivers were totally borked in Debian and could not find the
> LCD on my laptop at all. The other three distros had no such trouble.
> Debian also did not like my 3945 wireless card. Maybe Debian is a great
> distro if it works on your hardware but they screwed the pooch bad for
> my hardware.
>
> Fedora was actually pretty good and I liked that SELinux was actually
> all setup and enabled. I would have probably stuck with it had I not
> been an idiot and downloaded the prerelease version 10. That caused
> problems. But, I didn't see an appreciable difference between Ubuntu and
> Fedora except that Ubuntu has a lot more packages available.
>
> So, in the end I just could find no really good reason NOT to use Ubuntu
> and it works just fine. Seems to me that maybe the arguments against it
> are either old and expired or just based on Elitism. Correct me if I'm
> wrong.
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