Hi Gustin, Many thanks for your extensive and informative reply! It confirmed what I had already thought-- I should stick with the Debian "family".
In an earlier email you wrote that you had been able to get vuescan to work "out of the box". I wonder if that is because you had a different processor than me (I have an amd64) rather than a different distro. All the best. Robin On Jan 8, 2008 3:36 AM, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have used many distros over the years. To be honest, most are pretty > good. The first distro that clicked with me was Debian, and my favorite > ~ Desktop Environment is KDE, so it is not surprising that KUbuntu is my > personal choice. > > Having said that, I would choose a distro that has a lot of local users, > since this list is likely going to be your second stop for help and > support (google should become your first :) > > ~From what I can see, the Debian and Ubuntu distros have a lot of local > users and should be "safe" choices. Also, I know a number of Fedora > users so that is not bad choice either. There are also a few Gentoo > people so that should also be a viable alternative alongside Mandriva. > > By comparison there are only two of us who have significant Slackware > experience, and only one of the two is still a passionate user. This is > not to say that it is not a fine distro, but when you run into problems > (you will regardless of the distro you choose), it could be a more > difficult to get help. > > Given that you already have some experience with Debian, I would either > stay with Debian or try one of the Ubuntu variants. > > In a perfect world you would have the time to try as many distros as you > can, and then choose the one that you "clicked" with. > > Richard Carter wrote: > | Hi Folks. > | > | I think I've broke debian! My mouse is dead and apt-get and aptitude > | don't seem to work. Rather than bore you with the gory details, I > | think I'll reinstall. So now the question is what distro do people in > | CLUG favour? I like debian but ubuntu and kubuntu seem popular. What > | do you like? > | > | Thanks for any advice. > | > | Robin > | > | > | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | > | _______________________________________________ > | clug-talk mailing list > | [email protected] > | http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > | Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > | **Please remove these lines when replying > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHgzYVwRXgH3rKGfMRAvi7AJ9XWJ0F52r3SnzNBT2LHBJd5JO87QCeO830 > ZR1xfconlISv6vxT8pVveN4= > =DCkk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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