On Tuesday 26 May, Andrew Premdas wrote: > Crunchbang #!: fast/minimal, but a bit of a pain on very modern hardware, > mostly because of its debian roots. Slightly higher maintenance load, very > programmer/cli focused with good minimalism
I agree - #! is excellent. Well it was; the guy behind it shut it down earlier this year. In his message announcing #!'s demise, he said that people could now get what #! offered using stock Debian. To the original question; I'd highly recommend installing a few distros in virtual machines too, and seeing which one you like the most. You'll learn something useful that way (whichever distro you stick with). My personal favourite is Debian, and some of the smaller distros that are based upon it (such as #!). When Ubuntu first came out it was a very welcome way to get up to date desktop software running on a Debian base, but the gap has closed as the Linux desktop has matured. Hardware support in Ubuntu is excellent though, especially if you've got very recent hardware. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
