Ubuntu first time

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass-EzYyMjUkBrFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> It all depends on your needs. Ubuntu is just fine for everyday
> workstations where you don't want to worry about things just working,
> no matter how bad the approach may be (much a la Windoze) but it get's
> the job done and it's not Windows.

The *one* place where I find Ubuntu to be a notable convenience is
that the developers have been quite aggressive about getting it to
function in conjunction with bleeding-edge-ish hardware (e.g. -
reasonably recent laptops).

Debian has the failing that it often doesn't have the "bleeding edge"
kernels required to support some of the "flavour of the week"
hardware.  Mind you, some of those "flavours of the week" aren't
notably wonderful.  (Dell, I'm looking at you!)

> For specialized workstations and servers Debian is clearly a better
> choice. But then so is Slack and Gentoo. So it all depends... there is
> no one size fits all and that is the beauty of Open Source in
> particular Linux where there are many specialized distros for each
> need.

If "so is Slack and Gentoo," then it's not nearly so clear what is a
better choice.
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