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From: David Maslen
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:31

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Polly the Parrot <flatulantdingo@deadspam.com> writes:

> On Thursday 04 November 2010 19:28, Addinall wrote:
>
>> Nearly gave up, and gave UBUNTU 10.10 a try.
>> 
>> It worked!  And not only that, worked well.
>
> Must be horses for courses.
>
> I can only get Ubuntu 10.04 to work, the upgrade to 10.10 does not recognise 
> my video card at all - no idea why.
>
> Same as install for Fedora, Mint, etc.
>
> But I must say 10.04 runs nicely;  sees my wireless card and Virgin 
> Broadband modem.

My experience is that Ubuntu installs nicely, is well supported and
seems to suit those new to linux.  For example I was used to messing
about with the xorg.conf file to set monitor resolution. Ubuntu had a
drop down menu bar to do the same thing. Much nicer.

The reason I use Debian rather than Ubuntu, is that I found upgrading
Ubuntu, more problematic, whereas using Debian unstable, you constantly
upgrade individual packages as they are released.

This may have change in the last year or so (my last Ubuntu install).

David..

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