[GRLUG] Upgrading Firefox

[Steve Romanow]

John J. Foerch wrote:
>
> In the course of following this thread, I got to rethinking my personal
> policy of not recommending Debian to people new to the gnu/linux world.
> When I installed Debian on my new computer a couple of weeks ago, the
> process was painless, not complex like the Debian of yesteryear.  I had a
> couple of hardware issues stemming from the fact that I elected to buy
> relatively new computer parts, and therefore needed a more current kernel
> and X.org, but I would have run into those problems with any distro.
> (And Debian's apt-pinning, though a technically advanced procedure, is a
> true convenience in this situation.)  So what does the LUG think?  Is
> there any longer an advantage of Ubuntu over Debian for the novice?
> Debian has a shining reputation for stability and quality, so maybe
> Debian is the better "long term investment"?  Inviting some friendly
> speculation.
>
>   
This is totally opinion:

As a noob years ago, I found debian's website to be very cold and hard 
to find useful information.  It does not appear to have changed much since.

Part of the package that the noob needs is the "what to do when your 
geek friend has gone home."  One thing Ubuntu has done a pretty good job 
with is being approachable.

No distro bats 1000, technical glitches and breakage will occur.  My 
last failed reboot was actually my only Lenny system :).  The vm 
appliance shipped with the /dev/hd* drive labels and an apt upgrade 
changed it to /dev/sd*.  Only took me a bit to fix, but was a surprise.