On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 09:44 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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.
A reasonable approach to computers. > 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. If you are okay with Ubuntu, why would they suggest this? > 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. Good call with the hard drive. > 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. Yep, there can be bugs... > 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? Nah, you got that. Debian stable is not cutting edge. > > 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. I'd say stay with Ubuntu if you are comfy with it. The latest and greatest of some/most apps (openoffice, thunderbird, firefox, etc.) can be installed using debs (or "what-evers") from the relevant application's website. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
