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7 Reasons to Pick Ubuntu and When Not to Choose It

October 23, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Today I was not in the mood for testing applications and making some review, and although the new Flock 2.0 would deserve my attention, I think I'll cover it tomorrow. So instead of a review or a tutorial, I decided to write something more like a lecture, so you won't need any technical knowledge to read it. Surfing on the web got me an idea: how about an article to pick up a Linux distribution? And, to be more precise, what about an article to explain why Ubuntu or Debian? Since these are also the only two distributions I'm familiar with, here I am, writing this.

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7 Reasons to Pick Ubuntu and When Not to Choose It

Posted by: PerlCoder on October 23, 2008 01:58 AM

I'd take Debian over Ubuntu any day of the week for any purpose. However, Ubuntu does seem to be a little-bit better suited for brand-new users (more 'out-of-the-box' functionality, a lot of newbie oriented documentation).

Anyone out there who got their first taste of Linux using Debian?

Re: 7 Reasons to Pick Ubuntu and When Not to Choose It

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.236.234.249] on October 23, 2008 02:23 AM

I started out with Knoppix and then tried several different Distros, including Debian, before settling on Gentoo for about 4 years. I switched to Ubuntu about 4 or 5 months ago because I really liked how much easier setting up Compiz, etc was. Actually, basically everything has been easier. Updates don't take as long as still come out about as fast, tons of software in the repos, etc. I actually just want to use my system and not spend all day working on my system, and since I have one 64 bit server and three 32 bit desktops, running the same OS on all of them helps with that. Debian's good, but Canonical adds that polish that makes it great (YMMV).

Re: 7 Reasons to Pick Ubuntu and When Not to Choose It

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 69.233.200.134] on October 23, 2008 04:54 AM

Yes, Debian was my first experience with Linux and I am still in love with it.
Ed

7 Reasons to Pick Ubuntu and When Not to Choose It

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.236.234.249] on October 23, 2008 02:42 AM

After having just read the article, I have to say it's pretty lame. Far too basic to be of use to any but the most basic of readers (I doubt it even then). I'd ask for my one minute back, but I spent more than that writing this reply.