Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:07:39PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
The one thing I really don't understand, though, is why people use
Ubuntu.
bleh. responsing anyway...
I return to the example of my mom. Many people don't want to "update"
their system. They want it to just work and stay that way. Many users,
especially novices, don't deal well with change and don't want
it. Ubuntu, if you don't upgrade, is perfect in this respect. At the
time it is released, it just works. If you leave it there, if will, of
course, just work forever.
[...]
But it's the same way with Debian Stable/Testing. If you want a system
that just /works/, you can run Stable. If Stable is too outdated/doesn't
support your hardware, give Testing a run. If you really need a few
programs (For me running Testing, I'll use checkinstall as an example)
and don't mind a few bugs you can always install from source (Since
everything in the repositories is GPL/BSD anyway).
Maybe if
Debian changed the word "/Unstable/" to something else it would bring in
more users? Maybe Stable, Testing, and BleedingEdge? Just my thoughts.
[...] how about "CuttingEdge" instead
of "Bleeding Edge" or how about just refering to sid only?
Referring to it as Sid seems like a good idea to me, but really no
matter what it will be referred to as Unstable by the community; Which
will probably just scare users away. The way I see it, is that the
Debian mainsite shows that 3.1 Stable (Current) is the only "/workable/"
release, and is very outdated. Testing (Which /apparently/ has bugs) is
a bit more up to date, but not perfect. And Unstable will just break
your system, but comes with the most updated programs!
In reality, running Debian Sid at this point in time is almost as
unstable as running Ubuntu Edgy 6.10; Hell, even running Ubuntu Feisty
7.04 is more unstable than using Sid.
I really think the mainsite has too much of an outdated, old look to it.
I think that is one of the main things that scares people away. I mean,
compare for yourself:
http://debian.org/
http://ubuntu.com/
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