On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 18:56 -0700, John Meissen wrote: > This got sent to Michael instead of the list. So I'm forwarding it. > <sigh> > I recently switched from MH to a more "normal" IMAP configuration. > Apparently Thunderbird ignores the Reply-To: header, at least by > default. One more thing to track down and fix. :-( > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be? > Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 18:52:13 -0700 > From: John Meissen <[email protected]> > To: Michael Christopher Robinson <[email protected]> > > > > > On 5/27/19 5:59 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > > A lot of people seem to favor Ubuntu over all other flavors of > > Linux. > > I don't. I have heard that in the Ubuntu world something considered > > important today can disappear tomorrow. Is this a problem? Yes, > > especially if there is a high learning curve to the software > > program. > > Specifically, I have heard that there are some photo management > > applications and such that were mainline for a while and then > > arbitrarily trashed and replaced with something completely > > different. > > For this reason, I stay away from Ubuntu. I prefer Slackware, > > Debian, > > or a Redhat variant to Ubuntu. Ubuntu just doesn't seem stable to > > me. > > Ubuntu seems like an okay choice if you don't upgrade, but everyone > > should upgrade and install, ahem, security fixes. Am I being > > reasonable in my opinion of Ubuntu or not? Have things changed for > > the better and I just don't realize it? > > Just because something's not installed by default doesn't mean much. > If > an application is still being maintained you can either find it and > install it from the repo, or you can find a .deb file somewhere > else. > Just because they change their default applications is a poor excuse > for > not using a particular distro. > > Over the years I've used Slackware, Mandriva, Mint, Suse and Redhat. > I > currently use Ubuntu and it's an endless source of frustration. BUT, > I > use it for one very important reason - because they have their "Long > Term Support" releases, which means I only have to go through the > pain > of upgrading once every 5 years. I got really tired of the "upgrade > every 18 months" that the others put me through. > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Apologies for not knowing the details of why my brother switched from Ubuntu to Debian. I think the major decision maker decided to drop support for the major app he had learned and the next major release must not have supported it. Support was dropped to a major application for no apparent reason let alone a good reason. I've heard that a lot of Ubuntu updates break it, though this may not be the case for the LTS versions. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
