Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Jim Wagner wrote:
I switched to Ubuntu Linux a few weeks ago, and on the strong advice
of the friend who gave me the Ubuntu, waited until the Debian build
was out (whatever the term is for that.)
I've noted a few little nuisance things that had to be worked around,
but the apt-get thing is so temptingly easy.
Tonight, however, I wasted nearly an hour trying to get the
formatting to work properly. It was my old template, which I've had
for several versions so far. I couldn't make the header work, for
the longest time..
Worst of all, when I tried to make it follow the paragraph
formatting, it did--one paragraph per page.
Now, someone is going to tell me to take it up with Debian. I think
it'd be much easier just to download the official version and install
it properly.
What I want to know is, are these sorts of things the kinds of things
that happen, or can happen, when someone goes at the program to set
it up for their own style of installation? I've seen a number of
problems mentioned here in connection with Debian installs, and the
answer is, "take it up with them; they're the ones who've done heaven
knows what adjustments to the code."
Any responses would be appreciated.
JimW
Jim,
I am sorry that I have no answers for you since I use Fedora Core, but
I have been thinking about installing K-Ubuntu myself, so I am curious
about your final resolutions....
I took my troubles to the Ubuntu forum last night. The general response
was that I'd probably have "less trouble" with the regular OO2 download.
As for Ubuntu itself, I'm quite satisfied, though things don't always
fall into the same places as they did on Mandrake. There's more use of
the command line, but even that doesn't bother me much.
I'm learning to like using Gnome as a desktop, though I sometimes miss
the things I could do with KDE. (KDE is available for Ubuntu as well,
but I just can't seem to do the things I did on Mandrake with it.)
One of the things I _like_ a lot is that Ubuntu is fully Unicode compliant.
JimW
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