[ubuntu-in] If not Ubuntu then what

[Ninad Pundalik]

Well said, Ashutosh. :)  Totally agree with what you said.

@Ram:  Going OT here, as you expect discussions on the decisions and
not solutions, but I can't resist. :)  A very simple way out, for the
missing applications exists.  I anyway use it pretty regularly, as the
iso's downloaded at my place by most people are the Ubuntu Live ones,
and I'm a Kubuntu guy, plus I install a lot of extra stuff, that I
need once in a blue moon.
When you are about to upgrade, take a dump of all the packages
installed on your system by using dselect.  It gives a nice little
text file with names of packages and their current state
(installed/not installed).  Open that file in an editor, and clean it
of all applications that have specific package version numbers, and
the kernel related packages.  Also clean up other files that you feel
might conflict.  On the new install, again use dselect to mark those
packages for install by letting it import that text file, and then go
ahead and just run apt-get and ask it to take all those markings that
dselect has done.  AFAIK, a way to do this also exists in Synaptic,
but I have not tried really hard to search for it. :)

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