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> I can't really trust Canonical - even though they've given us all so much What did they give us exactly? Unity? Upstart? I'm laughing. It's really interesti
by 4ad 13y ago
> I can't really trust Canonical - even though they've given us all so much
What did they give us exactly? Unity? Upstart? I'm laughing.
It's really interesting how Canonical managed to promote Ubuntu. In the beginning, Ubuntu had nothing Debian didn't have. Nothing at all. It was just Debian with a brown theme. They claimed it was the most user friendly Linux distribution, and a lot of novices believed them not knowing better. Fake it 'till you make it.
Ubuntu's success comes from the free CDs. That was Mark's single good decision, but what a decision that was.
- code_duck 13y agoUbuntu advanced desktop Linux in terms of ease of installation, drivers and slickness bar a time when Debian seemed to be stagnating. I was a Debian user for years, but around 2005-6 I decided to change my main system to Ubuntu. At the time, it had been years since stable Debian had been updated and I was finding it laborious to update the software manually. Meanwhile, Debian unstable was more up to date with the latest KDE, gnome, etc but was ... unstable. Ubuntu did a lot of work well in terms of final fit and polish to make Debian more user friendly. While I have long been most at home glunking around in a shell, I appreciated this there's a limit to how much time I can spend compiling KDE and upgrading libc.