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Datamation examines the Debian and Ubuntu distros in detail by starting with the question, what is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu? Neither GNU/Linux distro has been out of Distrowatch's top six since 2005, and for the last four years neither has been out of the top three. There are good reasons for that. Though if systemd is not your cup of tea, there is also a Debian fork, Devuan, which is basically Debian GNU/Linux minus systemd.
[Ed Note: For many in the community who are Linux experts, this article may have no appeal. For those of us that are new to it and trying to learn, something this basic is a nice read and contains good information.]
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Debian vs. Ubuntu: What's the Difference?
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(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Monday July 17 2017, @01:08AM
In the 90s, I had played around with various early distros and found doing even trivial stuff extremely hard. So I always went back to Windows. But in 2002/2003 I got a new motherboard/case/HD, and wanted to have a real legal install of Windows on it. So I headed over to the O/S section and Windows 2000 Workstation was listed at $199, while Red Hat workstation 7 was $49 and came with a manual. So I decide to try Linux again. A few hours and 5 CDs later, I had a fully operational system with every application installed. Getting up on the internet was a simple as providing the dial up number in the GUI and with Mozzila's built-in popup blocker, life on the Internet was like 1996. There were definitely challenges such as games and installing software that wasn't on the extensive CD repository. But mostly, I could immediately do everything I needed to. Thus Linux became the O/S of my primary workstation.
I never went back to Windows. I did eventually install SUSE a few years later. My kids were out playing in the leaves and I had just got a digital USB camera. I needed to transfer the pictures to a computer quickly so I could take some more. There are only so many times you will get good pictures of your kids playing in leaves. :) I didn't want to dick with on Linux so I plugged the USB in to a Windows machine I still had and....
Nothing. No recognition of the device, no new drive letter, nothing. Finally, I figured out you had do download 100mb of crapware from Kodak to get drivers to recognize the camera. It took an hour. I was trying to avoid shit like this by using the "it just works" for Windows. And USB is supposed to
be plug in play.
After all of that, I tried plugging in the camera to my SUSE machine. Once I plugged it in, a dialog box popped up:
"A USB camera has been detected. Would you like to import photos into F-spot?" And the shit just worked. At that point, Windows was done. I later replaced that SUSE machine with a sweet Dell Ubuntu and never looked back. Now you can find pretty much anything you need in the repositories, Wine runs lots of Windows only stuff (sometimes better than current version of Windows) and Steam/GOG provides more Linux games than I can possibly play.
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