On 01/31/2013 04:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
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.
Well I would say that for each person there's a distro & a DE that suits
them. I "abandoned" Windows when I finally hit the "wall" of
fuster-clucks....(imagine the Exchange server literally HANGING in the
middle of shutting down ex-employee email exchange accounts?.....now
imagine the CTO walks in...and asks YOU what the heck is going on!) In
that instant I knew I had to "find" something else. Apple was (and to me
still IS!) way too expensive for practical and economic people who are
looking to save their pennies. Which left me with Linux, and I have
never had a problem with the Gnome desktop.....nor the Unity one. If
anything Unity to me anyway...is easier to use than Windows! I cannot
understand why so many people were up in arms about the Gnome
desktop...or the Unity one...I always thought Linux was for "freedom of
choice" if you didn't like a certain
desktop...download.....install...and use a DIFFERENT one! It's not that
hard...remember......those programmers and developers who work hard at
even MAKING some of the things we take for granted?.....have feelings
too...and I don't think its fair to CONSTANTLY slam them for trying to
be different, bold, daring, and anything but plain "vanilla"!...but hey
that's just me!...
EGO II
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