Ubuntu is great because it has the awesomeness of apt (I am particularly fond of aptitude) while taking a more pragmatic approach to hardware support (proprietary firmware blobs etc.).
In a perfect world I would choose Debian. For this imperfect world we have Ubuntu. If you want to waste a weekend just getting something simple configured like your wifi or dual/triple/quad monitors, then Debian is just the ticket. If you expect some of those things to just work, then Ubuntu is probably your best bet. I say this with love, I just do not have the time nor inclination to wrestle with Debian on the desktop any more. Ubuntu-LTS is my go-to distro these days. Fedora might be OK, I just hate the package manager (yum was an improvement...). If you suspect that a package was not installed, you can get the whole kubuntu experience by installing the virtual package "kubuntu-desktop". On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Anand Singh <an...@linizen.com> wrote: > On 2012-04-09, at 2:14 PM, t...@terralogic.net wrote: > > > > > > > The Keyboard locale is set for en-us UTF-8 but some of the keys are not > mapped properly. > > > > Its an IBM PC-104 KB... standard which I've used for over a decade. > > > > for instance the ?/ key gives a little e and a big E with I think two > (2) dots on it. the ~` key gives * and some thing else. > > > > > > How can I fix this. My next option is to give up on Kubuntu and go to > Debian. > > > > I think a HUGE number of packages I expect to be installed are missing > anyways. Comments? Why is Ubuntu so great? > > > > In your Gnome settings - Region and Language "layouts" tab, make sure > English (US) is set as the layout for all windows. I can't remember the > exact wording or how to find it as I haven't used Gnome in a while. Hope > that helps. A few years ago Ubuntu had a bug where installation settings > were not applied to layouts. I assume it has been fixed by now. I also > don't have an answer for why Ubuntu is so great. > > Anand. > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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