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Hi folks:
I'm interested in opinions on ubuntu desktop. I've been trying different distros for quite a while now. As a deliberately less technical user (thus far), I've been looking for one that pretty much just does what I want without tweaking too much. I started picking up Linux User & Developer because it usually has cool distros and apps packaged with it. I've found ubuntu to be exactly what I was looking for on the surface (GUI, installed apps). It even uses a cool text-based installer and update tool (cool!!!). But I am admittedly not a *nix guru, nor will I probably ever be.
Fundamentally, what is the general opinion of this newcomer? Is there a general opinion? Is it basically a solid distro underneath the covers? I mean, it's debian based, so a lot of the apps are older... I'm used to that with debian based distros by now. No problem for me.
I turned to Linux to get away from the overkill of Windows security and stability problems. I have not been disappointed with ubuntu so far. I've tried Slackware, Storm, Mandrake, Red Hat (including Fedora), Xandros 3 (nice, easy), dynebolic, gentoo, JDS r2, and a host of others I can't even remember from the late '90s. This one just struck a pleasing chord with me.
Thanks for your help! -Gary
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