On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Robert Nesius wrote: > > 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. >> >> I'm interested in objective criticisms of Ubuntu. Not so much in people >> bagging on it to look 1337. >> > > > 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. > 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. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110313/0cd68136/attachment.html>