Hi,
To imagine what kind of things i like from a distro, i will tell you my "linux story": I have used RedHat for 2 years than i discovered the ease of using debian apt;
I have used Debian for 2 years and then i discovered Gentoo after i was tired of compiling and optimizing my system (1 year and a half), i decided to give Debian another chance; guess what... it was almost as fast as a Gentoo system with all the optimizations i've tried. After another 2 years on testing/unstable, i decided to try Ubuntu/Kubuntu (now i have both of them on my system) i was surprised about the performance of Ubuntu (maybe i am a little silly but i have to say it: it seem to be faster than Debian) besides all that you do not have to configure anything it simply works from the start (at least for me it does). Ubuntu relays on Debian unstable packets so the packets are very new.
On debian testing things work great but the packets are a little old (you also have to make some settings here and there to make your system look like a real desktop)
On debian unstable, the packets are newer but the things broke some times (i do not recommend unstable unless you have a strong hard)
Debian stable is great only on servers (this is rock stable)
I am looking at Ubuntu as if it is the desktop version of Debian (I have great respect for debian; they have a lot of packages under development... but let's get serious we are talking about a desktop here... who needs all that?? i do not need 2 or more packets doing the same thing; i am rather happy with a packet that works from the beginning without me doing any configuration).
So, in my opinion, for desktop systems, the battle is between Debian testing and Ubuntu. Because of the newer packages i choose Ubuntu. I you like a complete Desktop solution you should try Ubuntu/Kubuntu also.
George
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Hi, To imagine what kind of things i like from a distro, i will tell you my "linux story": I have used RedHat for 2 years than i discovered the ease of using debian apt; I have used Debian for 2 years and then i discovered Gentoo after i was tired of compiling and optimizing my system (1 year and a half), i decided to give Debian another chance; guess what... it was almost as fast as a Gentoo system with all the optimizations i've tried. After another 2 years on testing/unstable, i decided to try Ubuntu/Kubuntu (now i have both of them on my system) i was surprised about the performance of Ubuntu (maybe i am a little silly but i have to say it: it seem to be faster than Debian) besides all that you do not have to configure anything it simply works from the start (at least for me it does). Ubuntu relays on Debian unstable packets so the packets are very new. On debian testing things work great but the packets are a little old (you also have to make some settings here and there to make your system look like a real desktop) On debian unstable, the packets are newer but the things broke some times (i do not recommend unstable unless you have a strong hard) Debian stable is great only on servers (this is rock stable) I am looking at Ubuntu as if it is the desktop version of Debian (I have great respect for debian; they have a lot of packages under development ... but let's get serious we are talking about a desktop here... who needs all that?? i do not need 2 or more packets doing the same thing; i am rather happy with a packet that works from the beginning without me doing any configuration).
So, in my opinion, for desktop systems, the battle is between Debian testing and Ubuntu. Because of the newer packages i choose Ubuntu. I you like a complete Desktop solution you should try Ubuntu/Kubuntu also.
George