[PLUG] Fwd: Re: Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?

[Michael Christopher Robinson]

On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 18:56 -0700, John Meissen wrote:
> This got sent to Michael instead of the list. So I'm forwarding it.
> <sigh>
> I recently switched from MH to a more "normal" IMAP configuration. 
> Apparently Thunderbird ignores the Reply-To: header, at least by 
> default. One more thing to track down and fix. :-(
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: [PLUG] Is Ubuntu as popular as it deserves to be?
> Date: 	Mon, 27 May 2019 18:52:13 -0700
> From: 	John Meissen <john at meissen.org>
> To: 	Michael Christopher Robinson <michael at robinson-west.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/27/19 5:59 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
> > A lot of people seem to favor Ubuntu over all other flavors of
> > Linux.
> > I don't. I have heard that in the Ubuntu world something considered
> > important today can disappear tomorrow. Is this a problem? Yes,
> > especially if there is a high learning curve to the software
> > program.
> > Specifically, I have heard that there are some photo management
> > applications and such that were mainline for a while and then
> > arbitrarily trashed and replaced with something completely
> > different.
> > For this reason, I stay away from Ubuntu. I prefer Slackware,
> > Debian,
> > or a Redhat variant to Ubuntu. Ubuntu just doesn't seem stable to
> > me.
> > Ubuntu seems like an okay choice if you don't upgrade, but everyone
> > should upgrade and install, ahem, security fixes. Am I being
> > reasonable in my opinion of Ubuntu or not? Have things changed for
> > the better and I just don't realize it?
> 
> Just because something's not installed by default doesn't mean much.
> If 
> an application is still being maintained you can either find it and 
> install it from the repo, or you can find a .deb file somewhere
> else. 
> Just because they change their default applications is a poor excuse
> for 
> not using a particular distro.
> 
> Over the years I've used Slackware, Mandriva, Mint, Suse and Redhat.
> I 
> currently use Ubuntu and it's an endless source of frustration. BUT,
> I 
> use it for one very important reason - because they have their "Long 
> Term Support" releases, which means I only have to go through the
> pain 
> of upgrading once every 5 years. I got really tired of the "upgrade 
> every 18 months" that the others put me through.
> 
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Apologies for not knowing the details of why my brother switched from
Ubuntu to Debian.  I think the major decision maker decided to drop
support for the major app he had learned and the next major release
must not have supported it.  Support was dropped to a major application
for no apparent reason let alone a good reason.  I've heard that a lot
of Ubuntu updates break it, though this may not be the case for the LTS
versions.