> Anyways, the discussion then veered towards Ubuntu spoiling things. > > The argument being put forth were :- > > a. They make things too damn easy. While people may still have to > configure stuff, most of the things become pretty much built-in so a > newbie/amateur programmer/developer who wants to play with the > internals doesn't need to know. >
Well, I use (K)Ubuntu, and I personally like that things are easy. I've had my share of wrestling with configuration issues and want things (well, most things, anyway) to just work. Also, why single Ubuntu out for this "criticism"? Don't most contemporary mainstream distributions et. al (Fedora, OpenSuSe et. al.) spoil things by making them too easy? As a programmer, the only grumbles I have with Ubuntu are that it does not install development tools (gcc, gdb, make etc.) by default, and that it installs a very limited edition of vi. Other that than, I'm happy :D. Kaustubh -- Kaustubh Gadkari kaustubh [dot] gadkari [at] gmail [dot] com -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [email protected] for mailing instructions.
