[clue-talk] best/worst/most interesting distro?

[Greg Knaddison]

/me responds to say he uses Ubuntu and loves it.

I think the reason the Ubuntu crowd is quiet is that the thread is
about "best/worst/most interesting" and I think most Ubuntu people
feel like "It just works. I'm not really proud I run it, but I feel I
am more productive when I run it."

<snark class="in_response_to_the_anti_forum_thread">If only there were
a way to vote and aggregate our information on distro usage without
having to have everyone send an e-mail to the whole list. Like, a
profile field on a website account or a "poll" or "survey" that we ran
on a website. I guess there are some things where e-mail is not the
best medium.</snark>

Cheers,
Greg

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Dennis J Perkins
<dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> I think most of the group does use Ubuntu but they aren't responding.
>
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 19:59 -0600, Mike Bean wrote:
>
> I do think it's interesting that the responses haven't been what I thought
> they'd be.  I assumed we'd be a smaller sample of the population as a whole,
> but we've had at least as many people answer that their distribution of
> choice is one outside of the top six, as people inside the top six.  I would
> certainly agree that the diversity is part of the appeal.
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Maxwell Spangler
> <maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:13 -0600, Mike Bean wrote:
>
>
>> I keep an eye on distrowatch, and I don't think it'll shock anyone to
>> assert that most people use the to 6 or so distros on their list, both
>> at home and at work, but I got a little curious.  Someone's using
>> those other distros, somewhere...  So I thought I'd just come over and
>> ask for opinions,  what's your best/worst/most interesting distro?
>> What do you use at home?  Provided there are those of us out there,
>> who don't automatically use Ubuntu.
>
>
> I use Fedora at home and have been using Fedora and Redhat consistently
> for many, many years.  It is my personal reference point as to what
> Linux should be and I've been very happy with it.
>
> I'm now using Ubuntu at work for a personal workstation and Redhat
> Enterprise and SuSE among others.  Ubuntu is equal to Fedora plus
> slightly easier access to software and settings that make a more
> comfortable personal environment.  I'm really enjoying it and I
> appreciate the innovations they've made.
>
> I've always heard about various Linux distributions but have never felt
> they had a compelling reason to leave.  Many of us left Slackware way
> back when because Redhat had rpm support and that clearly made the
> distribution better.  But without a killer app, I don't see a need to
> try the smaller distributions.
>
> We should all be very thankful that we have so much to choose from and
> can find such rewards in something developed cooperatively and offered
> for free.
>
> --
> Maxwell Spangler
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