<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Mike Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbmiller%2Bl@gmail.com">mbmiller+l@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Robert Nesius wrote:<br>
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I think Canonical gets a bit of a bad rap. They are pushing a debian-based distro with a six-month release cycle - which is exactly what a lot of people wanted. They also have done a lot of work on integration. I don't know the whole story, but there has been friction between the Gnome community and Canonical for awhile - as from reading the posts above it seems Gnome leadership has been somewhat dickish about some of the issues at play.<br>
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I'm interested in objective criticisms of Ubuntu. Not so much in people bagging on it to look 1337.<br>
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When I see people calling it "noob"untu, I think they are trying to tell me they are more experienced users who don't need an easy-to-use distro. I've been using Unix and Linux systems for more than 20 years and I greatly prefer something easy that requires almost nothing from me as a user. If it's easy to install and just works, that's great. I would prefer to have no sysadmin skills at all and have a system with good, secure default settings that never fails. Having readily available, up-to-date packages is important. For me Ubuntu is working fine. If there is something better, I'd like to know, but I wouldn't want it if it's going to take a lot of time to figure it out.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>You really hit the nail on the head, Mike. Well, the head of a nail I care about, anyway. As someone who has supported distributions of Open Source tools, I've had my fill of compiling/configuring packages. If I can get something reasonably up-to-date and be up and running in minutes instead of half a day, I'm all for it. My experience on Ubuntu to date has been very positive in that regard. <br>
<br>-Rob<br> <br></div></div><br>