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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
RedHat and Ubuntu. Dont like either one. Never liked RPMs and I dont like the fact that Ubuntu tells you to reboot why to much. This is Linux I shouldn't have to reboot for anything other than a new kernel. And with upstart Ubuntu is more like Windows than any other distro I've tried.
Debian for me. In a few days I will give Slackware another try. Slack worked great for a router I had a few years ago. But now I want to give KDE a try and figure Slack will give it a good showing.
P.S. Heard Debian is taking a look at upstart. If they use it then I'm gone, so Slack may be good for more than KDE.
Yes, I think many of us dislike the idea of distros that are too clickity-clickity easy. For those of us that poured over manpages for countless hours, spent months learning shell scripting so we could write scripts to automate stuff HAL does in one mouse click, and spent far more time in /log then we ever imagined, it's insulting.
I cringe at the thought of some clueless guy with his ubuntu box getting his linksys wrt54g (I swear. they sell these things at gas stations or something, they're EVERYWHERE) pwn'd because he was too lazy and ignorant to read the directions and set up a wep key. From there it's a few more steps before he's unknowingly running as a kad supernode, bittorrent seed or DCC fileserver.
Why does it bother me? Because the commercial OS world groups him as "one of us".
Yes, I think many of us dislike the idea of distros that are too clickity-clickity easy. For those of us that poured over manpages for countless hours, spent months learning shell scripting so we could write scripts to automate stuff HAL does in one mouse click, and spent far more time in /log then we ever imagined, it's insulting.
I cringe at the thought of some clueless guy with his ubuntu box getting his linksys wrt54g (I swear. they sell these things at gas stations or something, they're EVERYWHERE) pwn'd because he was too lazy and ignorant to read the directions and set up a wep key. From there it's a few more steps before he's unknowingly running as a kad supernode, bittorrent seed or DCC fileserver.
Why does it bother me? Because the commercial OS world groups him as "one of us".
Thank you, you have just put my thoughts into words.
Slackware took a beating (sob). Debian and Fedora 3rd and 4th, seems logical IMHO.
Linux for the masses, click and run, instant gratification society you are on your way! The only thing is that I am not catching that train.
Popularity doesn't matter. There's still this myth floating around that Slackware is difficult and old-fashioned, and that obviously frightens some people off even trying it. If the users of any other distro should be worried about Ubuntu's popularity - it's Debian.
This did not surprise me. I knew Ubuntu would win. I am impressed by Slackware though. A second place is a very respected position, even though I hate that distro with passion.
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