On 28.10.11 10:45, Tim Connors wrote:
I don't get why geeks use Ubuntu.
Well, this one found that Debian wouldn't install on hardware he'd just paid good money for, nearly a decade ago. Ubuntu was the closest which worked OOTB. And to be fair, it has for the most part worked well enough, at least after various gremlins have been whacked on the head after each upgrade. (Not pointing the finger _only_ at NetworkManager, here.)
I think the usual argument is "it just works" (somewhat like Apples - I can at least understand that in principle, although it never worked for me, with my brain being wired to focus-follows-mouse-but-not-raise, and with middle click being broken in the opengl X11 apps I was programming,
One of the first things I tweaked after the first Ubuntu install was focus-follows-mouse-but-not-raise. If you don't mind using the GUI (just once), then System->Preferences->Windows presents that option. Dunno how middle click needs to work for you, but on my 3-button mouse, Left selects, Middle pastes, and ^Right pops up the "VT Fonts" dialogue. For pasting into Vim, middle click is _essential_ for me.
and with package management being useless), but demonstrably, it just doesn't work (so completely unlike, I mean, like Apple then).
I've installed a couple of dozen packages, including a couple of toolchains, without anything but flawlessness. (That I can recall) It has worked so well that my long-term habit of building cross-compiler toolchains and various favourite apps has fallen into disuse. It's NetworkMunger, the "DO NOT EDIT" crap in config files, and the other user-alienating M$-style arrogance which will cause me to flip back to Debian. (I like to upgrade every 3-4 years, if it seems warranted, but Ubuntu may offend fatally before then.) Erik -- Debian is for people who can read man pages. Robert Moonen (on luv-main ML)