Ubuntu
Exactly What Makes Debian One of the Most Popular Distros Out There?
We have turned into a Linux user since 2008 and my first Linux distribution was Ubuntu. Ubuntu currently is the most used Linux distribution so when somebody is speaking about Linux, most likely that he's talking about Ubuntu. Personally, I have a very complicated opinion toward Ubuntu, I both like it and dislike it.
In this article, I am going to enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of Ubuntu to justify my love and hate for it. Ubuntu has several benefits to offer to its users. First of all, it is meant to be very easy to make use of and install. Certainly one of its strongest selling points is always that Ubuntu will detect all your hardware, set up your networking, and enables you to easily configure your operating system through a nice pretty and shiny brown purple interface.
For this reason former users of Ubuntu will still feel safe in the environment of Ubuntu. One other good thing about Ubuntu is that it is supported wonderfully. Coming from a user's viewpoint, in particular a tech-oriented one, having enough persons from where at least one will know the response is a blessing. You will find the Debian e-mail lists, the IRC channels (both official OFTC one along with the Freenode one), the forums.
And why not say it, http://www.linux-archive.org/ does a great job too in assisting Debian. How's that?, you may ask. Well, Ubuntu is indeed preferred and utilized by many people who on the online forums you can get a straight, good response to a question in minutes. And also, since Ubuntu is dependent on Debian, over 90% of the questions which apply for Ubuntu will apply for Debian too.
Nevertheless, there is nothing totally perfect. Ubuntu have their own drawbacks as well. Ubuntu is designed to be easy for newbies. So if the users want to try to do something advanced, they could end up fighting the whole operating system. One example is, in order to change to a new desktop environment aside from the default one, you will find a great deal of bugs and errors to cope with.
It is rather hard to tweak and modify the default settings in Ubuntu, many users have been complaining in regards to the network settings and the audio configuration of Ubuntu. The Ubuntu community may be the greatest in the Linux world nowadays but it consists mostly of new users so you can get lots of bad advice from there. Most of the solutions for simple problems entails downloading new packages, that may bloat of your system, as opposed to properly fixing it. It is very annoying to need to download an enormous chunk of new packages just to resolve a little issue.