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I like that someone else spent the time trying to figure it out so that I could read about his experiences, then spend only 10 minutes figuring it out. I don't
by aethertap 14y ago
I like that someone else spent the time trying to figure it out so that I could read about his experiences, then spend only 10 minutes figuring it out. I don't know if that was the purpose at the outset (probably not) but I still find it highly worthwhile.
I am a Linux user that likes to stick with distro defaults for everything that isn't part of my core tool set because it seems like my system is less prone to breaking when updates happen, and because I get more updates that way. It's nice to see others' reviews of those distros so that I can make a better decision without doing all of the legwork, so I say kudos to this guy for doing it. I might try Fuduntu now based on his review, and I wouldn't have bothered otherwise.
- pekk 14y agoIt seems like my system is more prone to breaking when I use obscure distros. I might think a distro's choices were totally awesome but if not many other people are using it and/or the development is not that active, and I expect it to 'just work,' then I'm going to have a bad time.
- aethertap 14y agoYeah, that's a good point as well. These days, I tend to stick with stuff that's based on apt on the theory that it hopefully requires less effort on the part of the maintainers to keep it up to date because they can piggyback on the larger community. Not foolproof, but good enough for me. I got tired of the unfriendly (to me) UI changes in straight Ubuntu, so I switched to Lubuntu. So far it's been decent enough. I've been thinking about giving slackware another round though, as I haven't used them for about 10 years and have mostly positive memories of the experience. Maybe on an experimental box.