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> it’s Ubuntu without someone else telling you what to do or taking the OS into a direction that you’re unwilling to follow Debian, anyone?
by udp 15y ago
> it’s Ubuntu without someone else telling you what to do or taking the OS into a direction that you’re unwilling to follow
Debian, anyone?
- pekk 15y agoOr Fedora. Or if you like tweaking things, Arch or Gentoo. Or to become more knowledgeable, a BSD. I think part of what is happening here is that some number of people who got started in Ubuntu, as their first non-Windows OS, take it for granted (thus get outraged at change) but now feel the 'growing pains' of someone who wants to get more technical. Since their heads aren't where they were when they started with Ubuntu, it isn't as suitable for them any more.
- gcp 15y agoI switched to Ubuntu coming from Debian (and some Gentoo) because I was at the point where I needed my system to be productive instead of spending all day tweaking it. Canonical has done great things to make Ubuntu Just Work. It works great out of the box under most virtualization solutions. It's also one of the only distros that has done away with most font bugs in Linux, for example. At least Linux Mint DE still has many of those - I tried it briefly after the Ubuntu 11.10 debacle. The outrage is there because Canonical is actively breaking workflows that used to work, in other words, forcing users to spend time tweaking their system instead of being productive. That's a recipe for disaster and user outrage. Just ask the Firefox devs :-)
- levesque 15y agoI'm going for Debian, will try gnome shell to see how far it has come since it's beginnings and once I find out it sucks (most likely outcome) I will install XFCE.
- senko 15y agoI'm writing this on Debian Sid (unstable), which as of few weeks ago has GNOME 3. It works pretty well - has some quirks and bugs, but overall I think it's a great improvement over GNOME2. (This is on my main work computer).
- levesque 15y agoAwesome, I can't wait to be back on Debian, nice to know Gnome3 might be a viable alternative to the bound to die Gnome2 and the sometimes disappointing Xfce.
- notatoad 15y agothe prevailing theme in most comments regarding mint i've seen on reddit and various blogs is that people like mint because it's easy. one of mint's big selling points is that they include the ubuntu-restricted-extras package by default, rather than making people install it. if people can't install a single package, i don't think debian is for them.
- sixtofour 15y agoAnd yet, Mint has a version that's directly downstream from Debian, not based on Ubuntu at all.