[aklug] Re: THE MARTIANS ARE COMING!!! HEAD FOR THE HILLS!!

From: barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
Date: Wed Jul 08 2009 - 13:01:24 AKDT

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

>
> You use Ubuntu? For some reason I always pictured you on a no-x
> Slackware or Gentoo box, tweaking your .pinerc file and playing Nethack
> on an 80x24. Well, guess I haven't been on the list very long.
>

I suppose that is a reasonable expectation given the sorts of things I =20
talk about, however, from a productivity standpoint, I try to pick =20
mainstream distros that provide some of the 'niceties' that you find =20
in Ubuntu and their ilk.

For my workstation, I like things that 'just work'. I'm still able to =20
tweak things as needed, but I don't want to fuss around with being =20
under the hood all day.

I was a big Fedora fan for a while, but have found they aren't =20
focusing on the kinds of things that we see from the Ubuntu =20
crowd....hence the switch.

Besides, I gotta keep in the know about what most folks are =20
experiencing with regard to some of the GUI tools that are out there =20
so I can give reasonable guidance instead of saying 'OK, get a shell =20
and type....'

I know this is blasphemy in some crowds, but maybe my age is impacting me. :=
)

Mike B.

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