Frank McCormick wrote:
I have to agree. Etch is faster than Dapper or Edgy. I'm quite impressed with the speed. What I found to be lacking were decent looking fonts. When using IceWeasel, even Distrowatch looks poor. A simple fix by installing mssttcorefonts and running dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig, but would a new user know that?My Debian Etch is faster to boot and load Firefox/Thunderbird/Gimp and other large apps. That may be due to the fact I am not running Gnome or KDE and not carrying all that overhead. Overall I think Debian is a more solid distro, despite its few shortcomings.
The same package needs to be installed on Ubuntu, but I never really noticed because I let automatix install them (and all of the codecs) for me. I already knew what I would need to add to Etch to be able to view my videos and play my music, and I knew the repository to get what was needed. That isn't something that everyone will easily find. Googling will help, but one has to read, and I am afraid that there are a lot of people in this world who don't bother reading anything other than what brand of beer it is they're pouring down their throats.
Joe