[ubuntu-studio-users] looking for a secure and private linux distro, with the following . . .

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:51:37 +0000, Kaza Kore wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:37:53 +0200
>> From: ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
>> To: ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] looking for a secure and private
>> linux distro, with the following . . .
>> 
>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:22:29 +0000, Kaza Kore wrote:
>> >Ummm. You what?!?! No.1 on Distrowatch[1] above Ubuntu. Has a
>> >Forum[2] and a mailinglist[3] plus it is based on Ubuntu so most
>> >Ubuntu resources will help you with any problems. Please explain
>> >what of this you are against! If I wanted a general desktop
>> >installation it is definitely the first I would try. Especially
>> >with the amount of extra things that are meant to just work out the
>> >box which will not with (almost) any other distro for legal
>> >reasons. Makes it (sound) perfect for the beginner!
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>> That's the only point were I strictly disagree with you. *buntu and
>> Debian mailing lists were spammed with support request regarding Mint
>> in the past.
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>> This one is from yesterday:
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>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2015-June/008479.html
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>> Mint is No.1 for inexperienced users, that care about flashy themes
>> and an out of the box everything is working install, by
>> misunderstanding it with "no need for self-responsibility". One
>> update later after they installed it, they will spam Debian user and
>> *buntu mailing lists with grotesque requests.
>> 
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>You can't help it if some people are idiots! That's the Xubuntu list,
>so for the XFCE spin, and from just scanning the first few sentances I
>can see he's talking about Cinnamon and not even XFCE! Guess maybe
>somebody who migrated... But as I said they do have their own
>resources.
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>And saying you use Arch and not Ubuntu Studio and make enough posts
>about the fact don't you feel at least a little contrary by being
>here? :p

I prefer Arch for several reasons over Ubuntu Studio, but wouldn't
recommend a newbie to install Arch. However, I'm still a member of the
Linux community and interested to help, especially musicians using
Linux, so Ubuntu Studio mailing lists are a good way to do it and btw.

[root at archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/q
root at q:~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.10 \n \l

May 16, 2014 was the "End of life date", but that doesn't mean thatI
should stop to care about Ubuntu Studio and other distros. 1. I
want to chose a distro regarding my needs, so I need information. 2. I
want to help and get help from a huge community. Some Linux knowledge
is not related to a distro, it's universally usable and it's valid to
help and/or ask on any Linux mailing list. JFTR the Mint request I
posted is not an exception, Debian and Ubuntu mailing lists are spammed
with tons of similar requests regarding Mint. It's not wise to use
Mint, when you are clueless (I won't call the OP an "idiot").