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Re: ALT is not for schools yet
by gvy on Sunday 28/Oct/2007, @10:49
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Well, if you ever supported any noticeable Linux deployment then you must know already that both initial package base (and overall distro) quality are very important, but being able to fix what comes out broken in yet another particular situation is even more important. That, in its turn, depends on the level of competence (or profanity) of those who would typically know the distro nearby and can provide the support needed.
So far I personally have varied experience with varied distro users with ALT users being mostly competent (or at least curious) and Ubuntaries (sorry!) tend to be dummies, way too often aggressively pushing their dummy agenda on others (just like sectants) but being unable to solve real-world problems. Of course it's just my own observation but I communicate with hundreds of different people weekly.
BTW your rants are partly OK (our menu currently sucks; wifi needs some serious work as well), partly invalid (I'd argue Ubuntu localization is way worse regarding consistency) and partly a matter of personal taste (like sound theme).
Those that are OK are known bugs in work ;-)
PS: I've done mid-sized migrations and projects (typically involving one to a few hundred systems), just in case you wonder. I also participate in ALT since 2001 and seriously considered Ubuntu in 2005 but had to reject it for they were *much* worse than ALT, technically, back then -- and they still generate more noise than result till now. I tend to avoid projects with bad SNR and faulty PR. |
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