On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 21:16 -0500, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
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> 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.
FWIW, I trust Debian more which is a direct grandparent of Ubuntu that
shares the same package manager. So in a sense, I see Ubuntu as a
version of Debian that is more bleeding edge kind of like CentOS is a
redhat that is less bleeding edge most likely than Fedora. I use
Fedora 29 which I am writing this on, not the latest version of Fedora.
-- Michael C. Robinson
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