>Mint > Ubuntu > Debian. You choose how Free you want, and you get the 
level of ease-of-use according to that. 

I'm sure you don't know what is ease-of-use.

>> Systemd is a pain you get 

>Only if you care. Most people don't. My machine with 15.10 on started 
>booting /dramatically/ faster after the version upgrade that installed 
>systemd. I was impressed and like it. I don't give a damn about 
>scripts/logging format/etc., just that it works. 

boot time does not matter if the boot crashes. systemd is not reliable having 
boot crashes after Debian upgrades. Linux distros is not reliable, that's why I 
repeat: you don't know what is ease-of-use. Take a look at Apple's launchd, a 
simple init system which merges just 3 old daemons into init and do things 
asynchronously (speeding boot). The users want a bullshit software which 
respect him/her. And what I'm talking about respect is costumers right! If you 
buy a puzzle for your son and it comes with only half of parts you have the 
right to complain to who sell it and he must to give you a new puzzle. That's 
unfortunately does not work on open source world. Here, the users are treated 
as test subjects of softwares when they just want a supposedly "better" thing 
to use. That's why people feels happier using Mac or not leaving Windows. 
Debian has decreasing reliability sinse Debian 7. Now take a look on the shit 
of DBus. All the bugs I have seen using Linux programs like Firefox and G
 NOME or KDE things are all related to DBus. systemd uses DBus heavily, you 
cannot trust in this shit. Runit is available for Linux, Debian should be using 
it instead.

>Yes, Debian is a bit like that. Which is why I use Ubuntu, which works 
>out-of-the-box and to which I can add proprietary codec support with a 
>single command. 

> debian and it is not so easy to update either if you 
> don't want to break things. 

>This is the direct opposite of my experience, but I appreciate that 
>others' experiences differ from mine. As I said, I've never once 
>managed to get an install of FreeBSD to /both/ see the internet /and/ 
>have a working GUI except  via distros such as GhostBSD and PC-BSD. 

>Yes indeed. I do not mean to dismiss *BSD -- they're fine OSes if you 
>have the skills to use them. If you don't, Linux is easier and Ubuntu 
>is the easiest Linux in my extensive experience over the last 19 
>years. 

The prove you don't know what are you talking about. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, 
Darwin are core OSes like GNU/Linux. PC-BSD, GhostBSD, Mac OS X are desktop 
OSes on top of one of that BSDs like Ubuntu is on top of GNU/Linux. have you 
used pure GNU/Linux system? if so you know you cannot compare Ubuntu and 
FreeBSD, but Ubuntu and PC-BSD. There are different paradigms on usability. 
What you are saying is "Object-oriented programming is easier than classical 
procudural imperative programming." and you are WRONG, they are just different 
paradigms. If you had used pure GNU/Linux you would see FreeBSD is easier to 
use than Linux. PC-BSD, Ubuntu and Mac have the same kind of usability. So stop 
spreading misinformation.

>I am beginning to think that you live in a different, parallel universe to me. 

>"Support Debian/Ubuntu well" means: 

>* add repo 
>* install  metapackage 

>And you're done. 

>N.B. Ubuntu does not include a compiler by default. Users having to 
>build from source does *not* mean "supports well". I have not had to 
>build components from source since the 1990s. 

I really don't know what is the world you live. You don't need add repo for 
Debian, 99% packages are on main.

>I strongly dispute the "easy or easier to maintain" part, but 
>otherwise, sure, yes, that is great stuff and a good thing. 

You are wrong and now you know that. Please stop spreadding misinformation.
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