[PD] Linux - which distribution to use?

Thomas Jeppesen Jeppesen at skydebanen.net
Thu Apr 19 09:34:36 CEST 2007


I think I know where you are comming from ;)

Thanks for the good and quick feedback I've gotten through the day. It has 
helped me a lot.
I installed Ubuntu today and it worked like a charm. I follow the advice to 
stick with it, at least for a few months :)

Cheers all!
Thomas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roman Haefeli" <reduzierer at yahoo.de>
To: "Frank Barknecht" <fbar at footils.org>
Cc: <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] Linux - which distribution to use?


> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:06 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:01 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> > > Me, too. Debian rules. Other than that pure:dyne rules as well.
>> >
>> > i agree, though ubuntu is also a debian derivative, but sometimes much
>> > easier to use than debian and from my experience comes with better
>> > maintained repos. as a beginner, i'd still vote for ubuntu.
>>
>> Most of the packages in Ubuntu come directly from Debian. When I was
>> running Ubuntu on my laptop, I found, that I wasn't using the stuff,
>> that's not in Debian, at all, so I reverted this system from Ubuntu to
>> Debian again. OTOH packages from Ubuntu often flow back to Debian. In
>> the end, it's a matter of taste.
>
> i don't want to be an ass and please don't get me wrong, when i hook
> into it again. i fully agree with you. i started doing linux with
> debian, too. though in the end, all problems i had turned out to be
> manageable (and based on my lack of knowledge), i wish i had started
> with ubuntu first retrospectively, just because you have to make less
> decisions in order to get a working box, that 'just works' in everyday
> life. i dare say, that ubuntu is the most easy os to install at all, not
> only the easiest linux.
> when starting with linux, i had to realize that i hardly know anything
> about computers. i didn't even know, what a window manager is (least of
> all, that also windows uses a window manager, but the fact that windows
> tries to hide essential stuff from the user, so that he/she stays
> unaware about computers is anothe story) and that i was supposed to
> choose and install one, if i want to have a graphical interface. quite
> many steps were involved, until i had a running pd.
> i believe, in ubuntu much lesser steps are needed until pd runs. for a
> sligthly more advanced user, many steps seem to be obvious and are done
> fast, but for an innocent, naked, virgin noob (sorry for the strange
> wording), like i was two and a half years ago, each step can be a real
> pain.
> of course, at the end you don't have more or less possibilities in one
> or the other.
>
> just my 4cents (now, i'm broke  :-)
>
> roman
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