On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:11:32 +0200, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:39 PM, clay <[email protected]> wrote:
Just curious, why not use the latest Ubuntu? Is there a problem with the
newer releases?
No - not at all. I'm running Ubuntu at home. 12.04 was the very first
release that survived an update btw. And I even happen to like Unity.
Finally something different, good looks and incredible finishing touch !
(sorry guys :-)
But for work I want something lightweight (XFCE) and functional to coax
the
maximum out of it. Preferably with rolling updates to be sure I'm not
murdering the machine after a major release upgrade. Currently I'm using
Mint Debian. But the support for Nvidia Twinview is a bit shaky. It
crashes
as soon as I'm trying to go to character mode. I've already lost data
doing
a reckless CTRL-ALT-F1 in dual screen mode. :-)
I have a completely different experience: I've been using Ubuntu at home
(since about one year I've moved back using Mac OS X as the primary o.s.
in my laptop, but I have Ubuntu running on other computers and another
laptop) and I didn't experience any particular problem (with one exception
*) at each major update. I'm even using Ubuntu Server on three servers in
production, and no problems even there (caveat: I have virtual machines
for them and I first try a full upgrade on the VM).
So, given that there's this high variance in the experience with Ubuntu,
how can you be sure that the same will happen with another distro? And
note that relying on others' experience could be useless for the same
reason.
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