My opinion: Why I'm sick of Ubuntu comparisons
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Written by Damon Rios
These are just two of the many of comparisons that I am referring to:
In the interest of full disclosure, I did not look for these links. The first one was sent to me by a friend, a PCLinuxOS user. The second one was in my RSS reader. I did, however, Google "vs Ubuntu" to see how much other stuff would come up.
As a Ubuntu user, I am very happy with my distribution of choice. I have no feeling either way about PCLinuxOS, and based on the PC-BSD article, I tried PC-BSD and I was impressed by its quick installer, but that was about it.
Back to the comparisons, these comparisons are inherently flawed in one way: both of these Operating Systems use KDE (no that's not the flaw) but the authors chose to compare them to Ubuntu with GNOME. Since Canonical makes their distribution available with GNOME, KDE and Xfce (though separately), I think it only fair to compare like with like, unless of course the author chose Ubuntu specifically to gripe about GNOME, which appears to be the case in one of the comparisons.
I have seen other comparisons that objectively try to identify the strong and weak points of multiple distros, a Tux magazine round up of seven distros (issue 12) was won by Mandriva. I appreciate these articles, as they are designed to allow the reader to make an informed decision.
If asked why I think that Ubuntu is better, my answer would simply be: 'because it allows me to comfortably do what I need to do (whatever that is), better than any other distro.'
In the future, I may change my preferred distro, as I become more experienced with Linux, I'd like to learn Slackware, but for now, I am happy with Ubuntu - on which I have installed GNOME, KDE and Xfce - and its community-based philosophy.
