Ubuntu is for everyone, not only for newbies

[Florian Diesch]

Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 22 September 2006 21:41, Jan Claeys wrote:
>> Op vr, 22-09-2006 te 21:25 +1000, schreef Alexander Jacob Tsykin:
>> > Ultimately, somebody with Linux expertise is not really going to need
>> > what Ubuntu offers in terms of ease of use features. If we think about
>> > it for a minute, for those people, Ubuntu offers nothing over Debian.
>>
>> So why do lots of linux server admins that I know use Ubuntu, at least
>> on their desktops and/or laptops?
>>
>> Do they need Ubuntu?  No.
>> Do they need Debian?  No.
>> They could do a LFS install, if they had to.
>>
>> They use it because it's very useful for them:
>>       * no time lost with the manual configuration of everything, it
>>         mostly works OOTB
>>       * reasonably recent program versions, without the possible
>>         problems (and thus needed precautions) of running a development
>>         version of a distro
>>       * they still get all the *power* of Debian
>>
>> Ubuntu has lots to offer to people with linux expertise!
>>
> fair enough, but they are using features which are merely useful to them as 
> opposed to essential to newbies. Until edgy, gcc wasn't even included by 
> default! I'm not saying that Ubuntu doesn't appeal to experts, just
> that it doesn't do so uniquely in my opinion. 

I wanted a Debian-based distro with a regular release cycle, reasonably
recent software and fast security updates. AFAIK there's no alternative
to Ubuntu.




> It happens to do a number of things well, but the really remarkable
> one is the ease of use, which is something which is clearly most
> important for people either new to linux or with little computer
> knowledge at all.

I'm using my computer to get work done so I want a system that just
works. I'm not using the standard config but that doesn't mean I want to
do everything by hand.



   Florian
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