On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
On 16/10/11 22:29, James Freer wrote:
As Wayne said once don't swop distros too much but get to know one really well.
That wouldn't be the same Wayne who is typing this from a shiny new installaiton of LMDE after giving up (for the time being) with Ubuntu 11.10.....? :D
yes
To be fair though I have been a solid Ubuntu user since just before 5.04 came out so I am long overdue a look around to see if the grass is greener. Pretty sure I could have wrestled it into something close to usable although still at a loss as to how or if it is possible to configure around some of the things like that "dash" that were annoying me.
Will probably take a look back at Ubuntu for the LTS release. I am not too unhappy with some of the overall concepts in Unity I just think the implimentation is a bit off at the moment.
As to LMDE...well too early to tell but everything I really care about is working.
All i learnt about other distros was that there are a few that do 'nice polish' but under the skin not stable, poor repos... etc
ubuntu's achilles heel... frequent releases and development don't work. I've always felt that they'd be better off with an annual release. Two years (LTS)... too long to cater for developments adequately.
Six month release for xubuntu is fine as the development is gradual... that's the way ubuntu should have stayed (it's going downhill with Unity) - not thought through carefully enough from the beginning. [prophet's spoken - i have a five inch beard now after just a year!].
james