On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Ron Blizzard <rb4centos at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I wouldn't generalize based on your experience because Mint hasn't >> become a very popular distribution by being broken. Same goes for >> Ubuntu. > > I don't have to generalize, I go to the forums and see all the issues > -- often the same issues I'm having when I upgrade. What's frustrating > about it is that, usually, there are no solutions. You often get the > same advice I used to get when running Windows... "upgrade your > hardware." I often wonder if these Ubuntu issues are why Linux hasn't > been more widely adopted on the Desktop. A lot of people come to Linux > via Ubuntu. If an upgrade kills the video driver -- or the sound quits > working -- or it doesn't even boot anymore, then their impression of > Ubuntu (which many equate with "Linux") is not going to be too good. > Ubuntu is cutting edge, kind of like Fedora. I don't use Fedora > because I prefer stability over cutting edge features. I choose CentOS > over Ubuntu/Mint for the same reason I chose it over Fedora several > years ago. I didn't mean to imply that I didn't think that you've encountered problems or that others don't encounter problems (I'm active on and off in ubuntu-users so I see many of the problems that people have) but Ubuntu and Mint wouldn't have become as popular as they have if the majority had problems installing/updating/upgrading. People (including me) prefer cutting-edge installs. I once saw a statistic about Debian that claimed that the majority of Debianites run sid, the permanent beta, unstable edition.