I think I know where you are comming from ;) Thanks for the good and quick feedback I've gotten through the day. It has helped me a lot. I installed Ubuntu today and it worked like a charm. I follow the advice to stick with it, at least for a few months :)
Cheers all! Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Haefeli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frank Barknecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Linux - which distribution to use? > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:06 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: >> Hallo, >> Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:01 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: >> > > Me, too. Debian rules. Other than that pure:dyne rules as well. >> > >> > i agree, though ubuntu is also a debian derivative, but sometimes much >> > easier to use than debian and from my experience comes with better >> > maintained repos. as a beginner, i'd still vote for ubuntu. >> >> Most of the packages in Ubuntu come directly from Debian. When I was >> running Ubuntu on my laptop, I found, that I wasn't using the stuff, >> that's not in Debian, at all, so I reverted this system from Ubuntu to >> Debian again. OTOH packages from Ubuntu often flow back to Debian. In >> the end, it's a matter of taste. > > i don't want to be an ass and please don't get me wrong, when i hook > into it again. i fully agree with you. i started doing linux with > debian, too. though in the end, all problems i had turned out to be > manageable (and based on my lack of knowledge), i wish i had started > with ubuntu first retrospectively, just because you have to make less > decisions in order to get a working box, that 'just works' in everyday > life. i dare say, that ubuntu is the most easy os to install at all, not > only the easiest linux. > when starting with linux, i had to realize that i hardly know anything > about computers. i didn't even know, what a window manager is (least of > all, that also windows uses a window manager, but the fact that windows > tries to hide essential stuff from the user, so that he/she stays > unaware about computers is anothe story) and that i was supposed to > choose and install one, if i want to have a graphical interface. quite > many steps were involved, until i had a running pd. > i believe, in ubuntu much lesser steps are needed until pd runs. for a > sligthly more advanced user, many steps seem to be obvious and are done > fast, but for an innocent, naked, virgin noob (sorry for the strange > wording), like i was two and a half years ago, each step can be a real > pain. > of course, at the end you don't have more or less possibilities in one > or the other. > > just my 4cents (now, i'm broke :-) > > roman > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: > http://mail.yahoo.de > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.2.0/757 - Release Date: 11-04-2007 17:14 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
