The religion you are missing is that it is based on the one true distro "Debian" that uses the package manager to rule them all "dpkg" with "apt" as the dpkg ring bearer. In truth I always thought a distro based on Debian was the way to go for the simple fact that is is so easy to maintain and upgrade (as long as you keep away from the funkier apt sources). So Ubuntu was that, now maybe Mint is it. Mostly though I use Backtrack which moved to a Debian base as well. --j Praise be to Debian in all it's glory! On 11/19/11, Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > In my experience, Joe User is not as bothered by the usual UI diffs as > the committed ;-). I wonder that most of the FG customers are Joe > Users, so it probably doesn't matter (?). I bet performance issues > would have an impact though... > > I've never understood the fascination with Ubuntu. I've worked on it, > Red Hat, Fedora, Solaris, DEC Unix (OSF/1), HP-UX, (others too?) and I > know I'm missing whatever the religion is about it. Which is probably > the similar reason FG installs it vs another. > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: >> I understand that Free Geek has been installing Ubuntu on its computers. >> I'm wondering if the group is switching to another distro given the >> user-unfriendliness of the Unity interface. This would require a BIG >> adjustment for the Free Geek volunteers and the recipients of the >> computers. Additionally, the new Ubuntu requires newer computers than the >> old Ubuntu did. (As I have found, the new Ubuntu is sluggish with 2 GB of >> RAM.) >> >> Is Free Geek sticking with Ubuntu, or is it switching to something else? >> If it's switching, is it moving to Xubuntu? Lubuntu? Linux Mint? Puppy >> Linux? Another distro? >> >> -- >> Jason Hsu >> Founder and lead developer of Swift Linux http://www.swiftlinux.org >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >