On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > I have several years of experience with Ubuntu, but I have never looked > inside. I'm just a pointy-clicky desktop user. How things work has > never been of interest to me except when they don't work. Even then I > just learn enough to fix the problem and go back to living. > > However, several Linux friends have suggested it's time for me to move > on. According to the advice I receive I no longer need the Ubuntu > training wheels and I would be better served by going to a less > newbie-oriented distro. Perhaps they are right, but I grew up with > Synaptic and .deb files, and I really don't want to leave the Debian > world. Therefore, this morning I installed testing on a new hard disk, > leaving my old Ubuntu hard disk untouched so I can always go back to it. > > Having spent just a day in testing I am not happy with the quantity of > bugs. Yes, I know it is called "testing" for a reason. And I am happy > to do my part to help fix problems. Yet I need a computer that I can > use for real work. But at the same time I want the latest and greatest. > I need OOo 3.1 and Scribus 1.3.5.1 and the most recent versions of > several other apps that I live in all day long. The stable versions of > Debian are not sufficiently cutting edge for me. Or have I > misunderstood that? > > The local Linux friends who thought I should move on from Ubuntu > suggested testing as the closest in the Debian world to the Ubuntu way > of doing things. After today I am thinking they were wrong.
The following is my initial reaction and it may be something you've thought of. If so, I apologize. I'm not sure of the relationship between the ubuntu world and the debian world and I'm not sure what you mean when you spent a day in testing, but might I suggest that you dual boot ubuntu with debian (perhaps test all of the versions and maybe even other distros). There is software out there that can move your partitions around so that your ubuntu set-up isn't affected. God luck! -Neal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
