On 01/31/2013 12:09 PM, Craig White wrote:
these meta discussions seem only to highlight the things one doesn't know about the other. I use both Fedora and Ubuntu.
I use Fedora only and migrated to Xfce to avoid having to use Gnome 3. My older sister uses Ubuntu, with me for (literally) in-house tech support. After a year fighting Unity on her desktop, she had me talk her through installing and switching to Xfce. (Parkinson's and itty-bitty precise mouse movements don't mix!) Now, she's asking me to download the .iso for the latest Xubuntu so she can have the computer guru at her school replace the Ubuntu on her netbook for the same reason. (I don't mind her doing it that way; they're getting paid for it.)
Given the choice, I prefer Fedora for myself, but if somebody just wants to get away from Windows, I'll always point them to Ubuntu because it's designed for "Windows refugees" and Just Works. Now, however, I suggest that they try Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu, installing whichever one they like best. (Unity isn't exactly for everybody!) When I first ran across Unix, I complained that the biggest problem it had was that when you asked how to do something, the answer had to start with, "That depends." Now I realize that the freedom to decide for yourself which distro, which shell, which DE you use is its greatest asset, especially when you compare it to Microsoft's One Size Fits Nobody.
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