❦ 16 mai 2020 08:09 -04, Paul Tagliamonte: >> > Would it be fair to say that your main objection is that Ubuntu has >> > much higher popularity than Debian >> >> This is what I regret, indeed. It's been like that for many years, and >> the trend isn't reversing. We should ask ourselves why. From my point of >> view, I see it as a problem of marketing more than OS content or >> technical excellence. > > No, I think they do things better. Their installer is much better, and it's > a *lot* easier to switch. They had signed UEFI images before us, > and they enable things like firmware for wifi cards. This allows > Ubuntu to be easier for non-technical users to install computers > without understanding main vs contrib vs nonfree, how to disable > SecureBoot or what a firmware package is. We have lessons > to learn about usability and we've not learned them, and remained > stubborn about it.
Also for servers: - official cloud images far before us (kudos to Zigo for bootstrapping the effort on our side) - PPA - HWE kernels We still have some things better than Ubuntu: - backports - security support - not converting everything to Snaps -- There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.
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