Ubuntu and our love/hate relationship

21 05 2008

I am currently a distro torn person...
I want to like Fedora 9, but it is far too buggy to use...
I want to like Opensuse, but there is the whole Novell / MS thing and the package management is terrible...
I don't want to like Ubuntu, I think the LTS on 8.04 was a terrible decision, I think the idea of aligning all package and distro release dates is an insane pipedream.  Unfortunately Ubuntu just bloody works on my laptop, has all the packages I need without extra hidden repositories and has an excellent package system.

The whole Linux world is a constant state of flux, I would say more so right now with the extra publicity generated during the recent lauches, KDE4's brokenish releases, etc...

For now I will stick with going against my feelings and stick to Ubuntu...

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28 05 2008
#1 Jeremy (Reply)

I agree nearly completely: Ubuntu works the best for me, but I wish another mainstream distro were usable.
28 05 2008
#1.1 LinuxJedi (Reply)

I think if they held off on the LTS for a couple of months like last time it would have been a better experience, they would have FireFox 3 final in it (in theory) and there are some good bug fixes now making the repositories which fix most of the problems I have been having. These fixes should however be in the release not post-release updates.

The 8.04 release feels like an early RC to me.

I am really impressed by the look of Fedora 9, but WPA encryption doesn't work with this Intel wifi in Fedora. I can't find any way of fixing it but I can't access the net without it.

openSUSE is another impressive release with 11. The later betas are pretty darn good. But some of the apps seem more unstable than Ubuntu, the fonts just don't look right (can't really explain it) and the update repositories are often down and when they do work they seem to trash the system way too easily.
28 05 2008
#1.1.1 Jeremy (Reply)

Not to mention KDE 4.1
28 05 2008
#1.1.1.1 LinuxJedi (Reply)

I am getting the feeling now that KDE won't be fully usable again until 4.2, although I am itching to try a stable 4.1.
29 05 2008
#2 Jun (Reply)

Good decision. I think Ubuntu is the safest choice right now. I'm using Xubuntu 8.04 on the latest MBP and it's working great. Fedora 9 didn't work well on it, and you are right, it really is buggy.

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