Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 4 16:27:22 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:16:30AM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> This is going to sound like a troll, but I am honestly trying to
> understand. I've tried Ubuntu, and it was nice. But in the end I
> looked at Debian and thought 'it's as good or better, and I'll never
> have to reinstall again, or at least until I get new hardware'. At
> that point it was an easy choice.
> 
> Surely the Ubuntu install is no easier than Debian, especially for
> experienced users like yourself. I don't remember anything from Ubuntu
> that I can't get on Debian.
> 
> So, what is the advantage to using Ubuntu?

I certainly haven't seen an advantage to it yet.  The upgrade/install
issues are just something I couldn't imagine wanting to deal with.

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