[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[Roberto Serrano]

I tried Mepis before they started using Kubuntu as their base, and it was
pretty decent.  Their community was really good at the time, but so was
[k]ubuntus.

Hardware support for me was not as complete as with Ubuntu and I personally
dislike KDE, so I decided to use ubuntu instead, and I have been using it as
my main Desktop OS ever since.

I think what drives people nuts about Ubuntu is that keeps them bore.  It
doesn't take a week to get all the hardware support for a laptop running -
like most times with gentoo.  So in a way, ubuntu makes you dumb.

As for me, call me lazy, but I don't like to deal with portage problems when
upgrading gcc or X...or having to find/create a mysterious script to get the
sound volume keys from my laptop working.  Viva la Ubuntu!  ( And similar
distros, like Mepis)

Roberto

On 2/3/07, Francis Healy <zfhealy at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Jonathan Hadley <dermusikman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think Mepis was Kubuntu before Ubuntu started stratifying. I tried
> installing it on a friend's machine 2 or more years ago as an introduction
> to Linux (because i'm unfamiliar with GNOME), but was rather disappointed.
> It looks like they've adjusted their goals a bit, and may be a little better
> than my experience with it.
>
>