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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
I'm using debian now for more than a decade on my desktop
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I have some 50 ubuntu packages installed on my debian(!) system
Then you should know by now that mixing Ubuntu packages into Debian is a bad idea.
Don't be surprised when it breaks.
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I have the feeling that debian is falling behind too much in terms of package maintainance. Lots of broken packages which are not looked at and even more old packages
Any examples?,I use Testing/Unstable and can't say I've noticed any broken packages of late.
I'd say Squeeze is fairly stable right now.
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but I still vote for Ubuntu (though I had 2 kernel updates last year, which made my notebook unbootable)
Then you should know by now that mixing Ubuntu packages into Debian is a bad idea.
Don't be surprised when it breaks.
break what ? You can just look into the package and if it puts something in the wrong place, don't install it.
Examples for broken packages I remember are musescore and shutter. Wine and compiz are prominent packages, which are jsut too old to be useful. But the list is longer.
I still prefer Debian on my desktop atm because of their rolling updates in testing/sid. But if you don't care about that, ubuntu is probably the better choice.
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I guess I should have known better.
