On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I run Ubuntu and regularly read the Debian list, so maybe I can answer.
That's my situation as well.
If I need to know where is the menus Firefox is, or how to change my wallpaper, the Ubuntu list is fine. But nobody there understands _anything_ about the OS. That is fine, the target audience of Ubuntu is not technical users. The barrier to entry is very low. My 74-year-old mother in law uses Kubuntu.
While what you say is true to an extent, there are a number of members of the Ubuntu list who are quite sharp. The Debian list on the whole is more informative.
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