On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:09 -0500, M Harris wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote:
There are far more important criteria for choosing a distribution than how nicey-nicey people are. This is very true ...
... and very wrong.
At this point in time the openSUSE distro is "better" for several technical reasons than Ubuntu (I have objectively compared both and the state-of-the-art definitely favors openSUSE at this point in time) however, the Ubuntu "community" is bending over backwards to make "people" feel warm and fuzzy all over to get them to consider switching over (yes to FOSS) from M$ to Linux. "People" feel good about Ubuntu... is it the best distro? NO. Is it the number (1) ONE distro... Yes. (you do the math)
It's not just the warm fuzzies, it's also in how the community creates scripts for packages of non-OSS stuff or even the dread multimedia stuff, or <gasp> Web-Cam stuff. Ubuntu is shooting for the easy to establish desktop and use desktop, the rest of us can take a page or two from their note-book.
Fred's point is very helpful, if you can get past your arrogance long enough to get your head (and heart) around it.
-- Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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