[GLLUG] Why I left Ubuntu

[Bert W. Carrier Jr.]

Lots of great responses, thanks!

Ben, you hit it on the head for me. I'm all about stability and ease of 
use for non-linux types.  These are my work machines so no cutting-edge 
stuff for me thank you very much.

It's pretty easy for a Windows user to jump on a 10.04 machine and get 
to work.  I have 4 linux boxes in my office, all on a network with one 
Winxp machine for proprietary software.

I've heard that even though 10.04 will no longer be supported, it may 
work well long into the future.  So maybe I won't have to change after 
all.  What would be the disadvantages of sticking with 10.04 past the 
support limit?



On 07/24/2013 08:45 PM, Ben Chavez wrote:
> Hi Bert.
> So as you see for the replies there are plenty of options, perhaps you 
> can tell us what you look in your operating system.
> If you are still using Ubuntu 10.04 that makes me think you prefer 
> stable over bleeding edge software. That is why I suggested you 
> CrunchBang I think with those Debian base distros you can switch to 
> the testing repos or you can add the Linux Mint Debian edition repos 
> to your sources list so you get updates that way.
> Or you can go with the other suggetion to install Linux Mint Mate 
> edition if you do that though go with the Linux Mint 13 instead of the 
> current version 15. The 13 version is long term supported so it will 
> go until 2017. Here is their link http://www.linuxmint.com/
>
> If you go with Fedora you will have all the latest and gratest 
> software but fedora has a really short life span and you will be 
> running an unsoported version very quick. Keep in mind to install a 
> light weight user interface so it will run significantly faster than 
> if you go with their default Gnome Shell.
> Here is the Fedora link http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options
>
> so it is really up to you. Good luck.
>
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