Spoken like a true Ubuntu fanboy...
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| cmost May 19, 2012 7:17 PM EDT |
"First of all, it is designed to be very easy to use and install. One of its strongest selling points is that Ubuntu will detect all your hardware, set up your networking, and allows you to easily configure your operating system through a nice pretty and shiny brown purple interface." While it may not be purple and brown, most modern Linux distributions use powerful GUI interfaces to setup the operating system. "The other good thing about Ubuntu is that it is supported very well." This is certainly true of the top 10 Linux distributions "The ability to install.deb file makes it very easy to obtain and install certain software." Absolutely the same can be said of RPM packages. Other distributions deploy their own package managers, many of the most popular using either DEB or RPM. "Ubuntu is back up by Canonical, a huge company with strong capital." Ditto for Fedora's Red Hat and SUSE Linux's Novell. "Ubuntu is designed to be easy to use for newbies." How you figure? Ubuntu uses a totally different interface than either Windows or Mac. It's Window controls are on the opposite side. It's global menu is mac-like but inconsistently implemented. It's Unity interface cannot be configured without third party tweaking tools. In short, the desktop environment is totally alien to anyone accustomed to Windows or Macintosh. If users want a truly familiar interface, then they should look to Linux Mint's Cinnamon or MATE desktops or indeed to KDE. To say otherwise is gross misrepresentation. |
| caitlyn May 21, 2012 12:39 AM EDT |
Yep, another fanboy post. I just reviewed ROSA 2012 Marathon for O'Reilly and I think it's certainly more newcomer friendly than Ubuntu. |
| dave May 21, 2012 9:29 AM EDT |
Your comments about the article are spot on. Calling him (or her) a fanboy, however, is unprofessional. If this was a formal debate you would be docked points for using an ad hominem. |
| gus3 May 21, 2012 10:17 AM EDT |
@dave, the "OMGUbuntutotallyRAWKS!" attitude among some "reviewers" has become such a clichéd trope, that such one-by-one refutations would waste as many electrons as the so-called "reviews." |
| dave May 21, 2012 11:55 AM EDT |
cmost did a credible job doing a one-by-one refutation. My point is that he should have been able to do it without assigning the insulting label. |
| caitlyn May 21, 2012 11:58 AM EDT |
What if the "insulting label" is a 100% accurate description? In this case it is. |
| Fettoosh May 21, 2012 1:40 PM EDT |
Quoting:Calling him (or her) a fanboy, however, is unprofessional I agree with Dave, @cmos made excellent points and there was no need for any labeling at all. |
| jdixon May 21, 2012 1:50 PM EDT |
> My point is that he should have been able to do it without assigning the insulting label. And he could have. But why should he, when he feels the label is correct? And that's not even getting into the matter of whether the label is "insulting" or merely "descriptive". |
| Steven_Rosenber May 21, 2012 2:12 PM EDT |
A problem many a reviewer (including me) faces is who to credit for a particular feature in a Linux distribution. In a give user's early days, he or she tends to think that every good thing in a distro is due to that project's developers, but more often than not the innovation comes from somewhere upstream and is available in any number of other distributions. It's nice when a project makes a point of giving credit where it's due. So much from so many different upstream projects goes into making a given distribution that it is that it is probably easier (and much quicker) to say what a particular development team adds to an overall distribution rather than what they've borrowed from upstream. Users, reviewers, journalists, etc., are misled when a project, through rebranding and silence, takes credit for the work of others. |
| flufferbeer May 21, 2012 9:27 PM EDT |
Baboontu fanboys vs. avoiders ; let the unprofessional labels fly! @Steve_Rosenber, Your don't make a very clear point through all your truisms regarding "a Linux distribution" now do you?? (I think not) 2c |
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