Actually, many Linux distros are like that, not just Ubuntu. For programming, I prefer straight-up Vim over any graphical editor.
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Kristleifur Daðason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:29 PM, jonty <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yeah!! >> >> doug livesey wrote: >>> >>> So did anyone else not called Tim not reply to that thread because they >>> didn't want to sully its purity? ;) >>> Doug. > > Phewfffffffff ... I haven't even exhaled until now. > > Re. Tim's question, I agree with Tim: Ubuntu. I always use Gnome, the guys > around me at the office use KDE 4.2, it's all nice. > > Installing all of these, Gnome, XFCE and KDE, is very easy on Ubuntu, and > you can login/logout to try different ones. (I.e., you're not bound to > whatever GUI flavor of Ubuntu you install at first. So you can install > Xubuntu, and go to Gnome afterwards.) > > Sure, Ubuntu is technically flawed, like everything is, but there is a > strong tendency for it to work, and there's a lot of users, posessing > varying degrees of competence. Hence, there's usually a googlable fix or > hack or howto, for anything you need to do. > -- ~devyn
