[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com]

If your had been a debian guy instead of a slackware guy 
you would find Ubuntu frustrating. It's kind of like a 
crippled version of debian with lots of eye candy.

I should clarify that I find Ubuntu frustrating because I 
have habits built using debian. Then I try Ubuntu and my 
habits don't match the way Ubuntu is set up. I can take 
the time to change Ubuntu to conform to my habits, but 
then solutons from the Ubuntu community may no longer work 
for me.

It really has to do with my use of debian for the last few 
years.

For instance, I've been using Zenwalk on my laptop for the 
last few months. Its a slackware derivative, but it is 
designed to be lightweight. It tries to pick one app for 
each function. It's kind of a slackware lite. It used to 
be called mini-slack.

If you used Zenwalk, you would probably be frustrated 
because of your Slackware experience. You would probably 
enable the slackware package sources and upgrade the 
Zenwalk install to a slackware install, but then why not 
just use slack in the first place?

I hope that helps you understand why I find Ubuntu 
frustrating.

YMMV,

Sean

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:34:42 -0600
  Scott Lockwood <scott at cashnetusa.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 16:10 -0700, 
>sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com wrote:
>> For me Mepis makes Ubuntu almost useful, instead of 
>> frustrating.
> 
> Wow. I really have to boggle at that - what's 
>frustrating about
> Ubuntu????
> 
> I've been an old slackware guy for more than 10 years, 
>and I finally
> switched to Ubuntu. I can't imaging anything being 
>frustrating about it.
> It just works. I'd turn my kids, or my mom loose on it 
>even.
> 
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