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

[Russell Senior]

Ubuntu has made some dubious user interface choices (e.g. the Unity
debacle, eventually abandoned), but luckily there are many options to
choose from, and it is possible to find something that suits you.  I don't
have problems with packages breaking, certainly not within a release, at
least not noticeable ones.

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:17 PM Michael Christopher Robinson <
michael at robinson-west.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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