Quote:
Originally Posted by ~sHyLoCk~
(Post 3820748)
I nominate ubuntu karmic.
Reasons:
I had converted a bunch of family members and friends to Linux from windows. They were happily using ubuntu till jaunty, but karmic just humiliated me! I gave them Linux mint to play with and some have taken liking towards Arch and Slack. :D
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Um, well... My response to this is defined by the column to the left...
Best? No. If you understand Linux, then it's time to migrate...so is the story with me...
But, it's not fair to mock them for trying to help people who don't understand Linux and have their computer "work."
The only real problems here is (1) their modifications to the Linux kernel, which don't actually alter Linux in any way, it's just annoying trying to translate vanilla Linux instructions into Ubuntu instructions.
And (2), Really annoying and dissatisfying default settings. I mean that lol.
Worst?! H e (double toothpicks) no. :) Perhaps I should include my experience here. I started with the dreaded Fedora. Learned
nothing. Understood
nothing. Oh, and Lord, those old threads about the BCM4318 AirForce one card...spare me!
I switched to Ubuntu and found life. Thanks to it, I know what a /etc/fstab is for and how to edit it, how to crack my wireless networks WEP,
several command line commands, what and how to partition a hard drive, what open-source is, how to make a bash script, what Linux is and how it works, what daemons are, not to mention all of the config files I have opened in search of whatever I was working for. I also understand GRUB very well, and a bit more. Definitely didn't make me anything comparable to the Linux gurus here on LQ, not even within the remote vicinity of them, but was a wonderful first step. Although perhaps this is the result of what LQ has helped me realized. Definitely kudos to you guys.
I have a few distros I will never try or use again:
- Linpus. (How many times a thread has been started because of this...)
- Slackware. 13.0 or earlier. Major trouble here. Mostly I have found I can attribute this to the kernel version and not the distro so when the next Slackware comes out this will likely change.
- Fedora (and red-Hat). I heartily dislike Fedora and their sponsor for many reasons. Plus it's slower than any distro I have used (no benchmarks, just very easily noticed on my PC).
Tips top nominee to Fedora. Yuck.
Right now I am heavily considering Arch Linux. it looks really nice.
Will still need to read another few hours of the documentation before I ready myself for the install though. :/