[NTLUG:Discuss] DistroWatch 10 Most Popular Linux Distros

[Chris Cox]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:47 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:52 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:40 -0500, Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> > > Have been a Distrowatch fan for a long time , in fact several years .AS I
> > > have said over and over , Ubuntu is over rated , of course coming from a
> > > Corel Linux user and then Red Hat .
> > 
> > Ubuntu has a "rabid" community though.  I will say that they're often
> > "wrong" about certain things from technical point of view... but they
> > are there and their web site is awesome.
> 
> To be curious, what's wrong from a technical point of view?

It could be a Debian thing... but, for example, the Synaptic
package manager (and I here apt-get does this as well) downloads,
installs and STARTS services (yes... STARTS them without
me making config changes before they are stated).  Oh... I'm
sure it's probably configurable somewhere, but that SHOULD
not be the default for packages.

All in all, they're trying to duplicate the "friendliness"
of Windows.  And that's just SOOOO wrong.  People who think
Linux distros are "hard"... just don't understand the
complexity of being on a shared network.... Windows makes
1001 assumptions... and has a myriad of security issues.
We don't need to emulate them.

I'm sure there are other issues... I need to play around
with Ubuntu again (so I can get frustrated again and take
better notes).

With that said, there is probably more to like about Ubuntu
than to hate....