[Techtalk] What distro?

[Figaro]

Have you looked at aptosid?
Was sidux.
Very actice dev. groups, fast support (though often kind of touchy... old  
fashioned "torchy if not asked with due supplication), rolling release,  
liveCD/DVD images, very well tweaked user interfaces. KDE, Fluxbox  
stock... anything else as usual in Debian just an apt-get away!
http://www.aptosid.com/
Thank you,
matthew

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:34:03 -0000, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> Billie Walsh wrote:
>
>> On 10/16/2010 04:42 PM, Little Girl wrote:
>
>> > I remember spending a good chunk of my time maintaining,
>> > updating, and running all sorts of anti-virus, anti-trojan,
>> > anti-spyware, anti-adware, and anti-other-horrible-stuff
>> > programs. Being able to just simply *use* my computer rather than
>> > dedicating myself to maintaining it was a novel concept for me
>> > when I first switched over to Kubuntu.
>
>> What ticked me off with Windows was when they decided I was so
>> stupid I just clicked program icons for the fun of it. Every time I
>> tried to run a program it greyed out the screen and asked me if I
>> _REALLY_ wanted to start THAT program. If I didn't want it to run I
>> wouldn't have clicked on it. I don't need Microsoft nursemaiding me
>> every second.
>
> LOL, I'd have torn my hair out! (:
>
>> I've had a LOT less issues running Kubuntu than I ever did with
>> Windows. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I love it.
>
> I think it's to be expected. Kubuntu (and pretty well any other Linux
> distribution) is far more stable than Windows, so you're immediately
> free of the blue screens when you switch over. Then add to that all
> the things I listed off above that you no longer have to do to your
> computer. The way I look at it, the less things you have to do, the
> less things there are that are likely to go wrong.
>
> Large distributions of Linux are written and maintained by far more
> people than Windows, so it stands to reason that all those eyes are
> far more likely to prevent errors and/or to catch and fix any that
> might sneak by. Not to mention that the Kubuntu team (and lots of
> other teams as well) welcomes input from the users to make the
> software better.
>
> I could go on and on about the benefits of choosing Linux over
> Windows. The only thing I don't understand is why Linux isn't more
> popular. So I pondered it.
>
> My conclusion is that advertising is what's needed. I think all the
> distributions should pass the hat and gather some funding to pay for
> regular advertisements on television over an extended period of time
> (the same way milk companies or dentists get together and buy
> advertising as a cohesive unit). People use what they're comfortable
> with. They're comfortable with what they know. They know what they
> see and hear about on a regular basis... We need to get it "in their
> face." (:
>


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