Re: Why I left Debian
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:24, Zoran Kolic wrote:
> > I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used
> > Debian for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it.
>
> It is not a living thing. Has it's
> own purpose and fulfils it. Anyway,
> linux is user friendly this days.
>
> > - as I installed etch around 50% of shutdowns never complete. So common
> > that I was used to unplug battery simply to shutdown. Same for 'logout
> > session' which allways freeze the laptop with a new login attempt.
>
> Etch is not stable. Some laptops are
> culprits for one reason or another,
> rather than debian. Broken acpi, bad
> bios, cheap nics...
>
> > - recently I had to 'pinning' apt-get (or dpkg..do not remember..) on
> > previous version because latest version continuously break apt-get
> > repository. Only cost few hours of googling to find a solution.
>
> That's the best part. Fun!!!
>
> > - others..sorry only remember hours of googling to find solutions..
>
> Fantastic! You found it by yourself.
>
> > Once again I do not want to start any flame here : indeed Debian is a
> > superb distro (packaging system is really superb) but, IMHO, dedicated to
> > 'Linux techies' ?
>
> Some kind of weasel?!
> Come back in december, for weasel feat.
>
> Zoran
I'll certainly be back in December.
So, Etch and all debian guys, see u soon ;-)
Bruno
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