On 01/31/2013 12:09 PM, Craig White wrote:
these meta discussions seem only to highlight the things one
doesn't
know about the other. I use both Fedora and Ubuntu.
I use Fedora only and migrated to Xfce to avoid having to use Gnome 3.
My older sister uses Ubuntu, with me for (literally) in-house tech
support. After a year fighting Unity on her desktop, she had me talk
her through installing and switching to Xfce. (Parkinson's and
itty-bitty precise mouse movements don't mix!) Now, she's asking me to
download the .iso for the latest Xubuntu so she can have the computer
guru at her school replace the Ubuntu on her netbook for the same
reason. (I don't mind her doing it that way; they're getting paid for it.)
Given the choice, I prefer Fedora for myself, but if somebody just wants
to get away from Windows, I'll always point them to Ubuntu because it's
designed for "Windows refugees" and Just Works. Now, however, I suggest
that they try Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu, installing whichever one they
like best. (Unity isn't exactly for everybody!) When I first ran
across Unix, I complained that the biggest problem it had was that when
you asked how to do something, the answer had to start with, "That
depends." Now I realize that the freedom to decide for yourself which
distro, which shell, which DE you use is its greatest asset, especially
when you compare it to Microsoft's One Size Fits Nobody.