Debian has a reputation as being rock-solid, and I think it deserves that reputation for the most part. Its latest version (Etch) was released a couple of months ago, but I didn’t bother to try it until a couple of days ago. <\/p>\n
I was pretty impressed at first. It did seem quite stable. The look was polished as well (great login screen, wonderful icons for IceWeasel and IceDove—the unbranded versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, respectively). I ran into weird problems with my keyboard shortcuts in Gnome, though. Ubuntu would recognize them right away. I wasn’t sure what packages Debian needed to use my multimedia keys, though. The Desktop > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts dialogue would appear<\/i> to recognize my keys, but when I tried to use them… no go. Other than that, though, the experience of using Gnome in Debian wasn’t too different from the experience of using it in Ubuntu. <\/p>\n
There were two obstacles to my trial switch to Debian, though, and they mainly had to do with the fact that I had been using Ubuntu for the past two years before weakly attempting this switch to Debian: 1)<\/b> The themes included with Debian are ugly (in my opinion, of course), and I couldn’t find easily installable ones from Gnome Look<\/a> that suited my tastes. Worse yet, trying to install the Ubuntu ones just left me with a mess of dependency errors. 2) <\/b> I kept trying to sudo<\/i> and gksudo<\/i>, and I kept getting denied. When I did remember to use su<\/i> to switch to the root user, I often forgot I was root and ended up creating files or changing settings for the root user instead of my regular user. <\/p>\n I’m not bagging on Debian (well, except for the multimedia keys thing). I guess this just reinforces for me even further what I’ve known for a long time, having used Windows for decades, dabbled in Mac, and ended up with Ubuntu: a lot of the pleasantness (or lack thereof) of computing has to do with what you’re used to. When I first started using Ubuntu, I thought the Human theme was ugly, and I did everything I could to change it to look more like Mac or Windows. Now that I’ve used Ubuntu for two years, I love the Human theme, and I can’t live without sudo<\/i> and gksudo<\/i>. Root just doesn’t fit with the way my brain works any more. I didn’t have a problem with switching to root user when I was using Mepis (the one month I used it before switching to Ubuntu). Now, though, I’ve just got to sudo<\/i>… su… su… su… su… sussudio. I’m a Ubuntite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Debian has a reputation as being rock-solid, and I think it deserves that reputation for the most part. Its latest version (Etch) was released a couple of months ago, but I didn’t bother to try it until a couple of days ago. I was pretty impressed at first. It did seem quite stable. The look… Continue reading I’m a Ubuntite (or My Adventure with Debian)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}