Ten years of Ubuntu • Hacker News Board

Re: Ten years of Ubuntu

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Post by bigbugbag » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 11:17 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #41

Ubuntu LTS is the only GNU/Linux distribution that keeps me on Linux on one of my laptops (an Asus netbook). All the other distributions fail short of 100% laptop support out of the box. As I am no longer on my 20's with lots of time to spare, either it works out of the box, or it doesn't. I don't care about starting weekend projects that become week long projects just to get something working. Or just trying out dis…

YMMV, ubuntu failed me on 3 separate laptops which ran fine with arch.

Re: Ten years of Ubuntu

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Post by bigbugbag » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 11:20 PM UTC

eloisant wrote: post #37

What I really loved in Ubuntu is that they were the first distribution that really considered itself an OS, not "a way to install Linux" and make choices about what it should include. All the other distributions started by asking whether you wanted KDE or Gnome, Abiword or OpenOffice, and ended up installing a bunch of software you may or may not want "just in case". Ubuntu made choices, if you didn't like it you cou…

At first ubuntu pretended to offer freedom of choice then silently dropped this. Not being able to choose by myself and being unable to remove a component of the ubuntu package I had no use for is one of the reason why I removed ubuntu from the dozen computers I'm sysadmin for.

Re: Ten years of Ubuntu

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Post by bigbugbag » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 11:26 PM UTC

This article overlook a few facts of history such as ubuntu actively trying to poach debian devs in an attempt to take over debian, or the fact that packages were out of date for 6 months and that the upgrade process from one version to the other often ended in a reinstall from scratch. Not to mention the numerous things that kept breaking (video drivers, pulseaudio and so on).

Re: Ten years of Ubuntu

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Post by Istof » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 9:05 PM UTC

tmp26 wrote: post #169

hiou wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...

The Dell one is nice. Are you sure the X1 comes with linux though? It looks like the only choices are W7 & W8

not related to your comment, but: I can't reply to most comments in this thread, I can't post a top level comment and I can't down-vote any comments... I guess my account has been flagged somehow... I can do all these things in other posts.