On 2008-05-19, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> Hate Ubuntu? It's normal!
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>| The fact that many people dislike the top distribution is not really a
>| problem. The problem is that many of these folks are extremely vocal on the
>| Internet to express their opinions. While no intelligent reader will ever
>| take them seriously, they do give the Linux community a bad name and
>| discourage potential Linux users from joining us. Can anything be done about
>| this? Not much, it seems. Until people start reading their own posts and
>| realise that senseless negativity towards the most popular distribution is
>| counter-productive, we will have to live with the unfortunate fact that the
>| top dog will always be the most hated one too - at least in the more immature
>| and destructive circles on the Internet.
> `----
>
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080519#feature
While I don't count myself among them, I've seen a number of detractors
from Ubuntu and the offspring. However, a lot of those I encounter
don't seem to fit the mold described above. Rather, most seem to be put
off by many Ubuntu users treating it as if it was the /only/ linux
version available.
Have a lightweight older laptop? Many Ubuntu users will recommend
Ubuntu. Need a server distro? Ubuntu users are often quick to recommend
Ubuntu. Have a problem with Fedora? Sometimes Ubuntu users will
recommend changing to Ubuntu to solve it.
Those are small examples of the types of things I run across. Some
people view the stock recommendations of Ubuntu users for everybody to
use Ubuntu as a slap at all of the others. In fact, with some people
those recommendations appear to be exactly what they're doing.
I don't have a personal problem with people who hold some zeal for
their preferred distro. It would be nice if they would all at least
pretend to know that others exist from time to time, though. Many do,
but a fair number don't seem to act that way.
As for me, I have problems with Ubuntu on my main machine, and always
have. My problems are specific, and they happen with Ubuntu, Kubuntu
and Xubuntu. Strangely, I don't have the same problems with Linux Mint,
which is an offshoot. And I only saw minor similarites when Mepis used
the Ubuntu repositories for awhile.
Specifically, I get frequent hesitations. The machine doesn't lock up
per se. It just pauses for a second. Nothing really problematic. But
something certainly annoying after a couple of days. And it's been
going on since the very first time I tried Ubuntu, right up to the last
version (7.whatever). It happens on this machine. It happened on the
last machine. It happens on the laptop. It happens on the Mac. It also
happened a little with the persistent drive I used to carry around. I
dismissed that because I expected most anything I used that way would
give me similar results (though probably not as pronounced).
As I say, though, I don't really have a problem with a lot of people
liking and using Ubuntu. More power to them. I'd bet eventually that
will wear off. Just like it did with others in the past.
But I do believe that a lot of the distaste toward Ubuntu that some
people seem to have has more to do with the attitudes of a great many
of the people using it, not so much with its popularity.
--
"In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like
the Windows people."
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