[clue-talk] survey results

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

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From: "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com> 
To: "CLUE talk" <clue-talk at cluedenver.org> 
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:50:21 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] survey results 

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Dennis J 
Perkins<dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote: 
> Here are the results. There was more variety in the answers than I 
> expected. Don't trust surveys. 
> 
> Number of replies: 17 
> 
> Which distro? Some people use more than one. 
> 

> Kubuntu 1 
> Ubuntu 9 
> Xubuntu 1 

That confirms my suspicions. Almost everyone I talk to at meetings and 
installfests is running some flavor of *buntu. The rest of us are just 
one-offs. 

-- 
Collins Richey 
If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries 
of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. 
_______________________________________________ 

I think a lot of people don't explore distros any more. Most of my exploring of distros occurred when I started using Linux. Ubuntu gives most people what they need, so they don't look any further. 

I expected a few Fedoras in the survey. It sounds like their last two releases were pretty good. 

A couple of people said that they had used Gentoo at one time. I don't know why they left. Too much work? Or disillusioned with the leadership? 

I do have Ubuntu on one computer but I will probably replace it with Arch Linux. Arch requires more initial work than many other distros, and adding some packages might require just a bit more work because Arch uses a ports-like system for a lot of packages. 
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