Hallo, Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:01 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Me, too. Debian rules. Other than that pure:dyne rules as well.
i agree, though ubuntu is also a debian derivative, but sometimes much easier to use than debian and from my experience comes with better maintained repos. as a beginner, i'd still vote for ubuntu.
Most of the packages in Ubuntu come directly from Debian. When I was running Ubuntu on my laptop, I found, that I wasn't using the stuff, that's not in Debian, at all, so I reverted this system from Ubuntu to Debian again. OTOH packages from Ubuntu often flow back to Debian. In the end, it's a matter of taste.
But one general advice I would give is this: Beginner's shouldn't switch between distributions a lot. They should decide on one distribution and learn it for some time, at least for some months.
And most importantly: Don't ever reinstall! (Unless the system was misconfigured in such a way that it doesn't boot.) Reinstalling doesn't fix problems on Linux. (That would be MS-Windows-thinking.) It just covers the tracks. To fix a problem on Linux, one should read the logs and read the docs and ask around for help, but not reinstall.
Just my 2ct.
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