I have several years of experience with Ubuntu, but I have never looked inside. I'm just a pointy-clicky desktop user. How things work has never been of interest to me except when they don't work. Even then I just learn enough to fix the problem and go back to living.
However, several Linux friends have suggested it's time for me to move on. According to the advice I receive I no longer need the Ubuntu training wheels and I would be better served by going to a less newbie-oriented distro. Perhaps they are right, but I grew up with Synaptic and .deb files, and I really don't want to leave the Debian world. Therefore, this morning I installed testing on a new hard disk, leaving my old Ubuntu hard disk untouched so I can always go back to it. Having spent just a day in testing I am not happy with the quantity of bugs. Yes, I know it is called "testing" for a reason. And I am happy to do my part to help fix problems. Yet I need a computer that I can use for real work. But at the same time I want the latest and greatest. I need OOo 3.1 and Scribus 1.3.5.1 and the most recent versions of several other apps that I live in all day long. The stable versions of Debian are not sufficiently cutting edge for me. Or have I misunderstood that? The local Linux friends who thought I should move on from Ubuntu suggested testing as the closest in the Debian world to the Ubuntu way of doing things. After today I am thinking they were wrong. I need advice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
