Comments on: Why debian sucks. http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2003/09/08/why-debian-sucks/ Now with less async io Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:13:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Kerin http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2003/09/08/why-debian-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1784 Kerin Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:41:51 +0000 #comment-1784 Really good points - and yet, I find myself liking Debian a lot. This is basically because, once I got it configured, it became ludicrously stable while still maintaining a notable degree of easy expandability (primarily due to apt.) 1) and 3) are completely spot on - the people in the support channel are assholes, and each time I've had an issue it's taken twenty minutes before some snobby jackass tells me to use the man command - and then that's it. Once, I managed to completely kill Gnome - I tried swapping gconf directories for symlinks to my other partition's gconfs - and as a result, no new windows would open. On top of this, I had booted with the wrong video driver (rendering tty1-6 out of commission, so I had no way of entering commands) so I just restarted, which fixed the problem. When I told the guy in #debian, he flipped out and told me that I was under no circumstances to restart a Debian computer and that it was never necessary except when changing kernel. I told him to go to hell. Really good points - and yet, I find myself liking Debian a lot. This is basically because, once I got it configured, it became ludicrously stable while still maintaining a notable degree of easy expandability (primarily due to apt.)

1) and 3) are completely spot on - the people in the support channel are assholes, and each time I’ve had an issue it’s taken twenty minutes before some snobby jackass tells me to use the man command - and then that’s it. Once, I managed to completely kill Gnome - I tried swapping gconf directories for symlinks to my other partition’s gconfs - and as a result, no new windows would open. On top of this, I had booted with the wrong video driver (rendering tty1-6 out of commission, so I had no way of entering commands) so I just restarted, which fixed the problem.

When I told the guy in #debian, he flipped out and told me that I was under no circumstances to restart a Debian computer and that it was never necessary except when changing kernel. I told him to go to hell.

]]> By: manmath sahu http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2003/09/08/why-debian-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1588 manmath sahu Thu, 08 May 2008 07:22:34 +0000 #comment-1588 May be Debian is a school of thought. But I can't agree with you if you say it sucks. I found many Debian based distros such as Mepis and Xandros to be really productive, fast and easy. I am not sure of the server deployment, but if the desktop deployment is compared I must say Mepis (a Debian distro) is better than any Redhat Enterprise Desktop. Well, that's my personal opinion. May be Debian is a school of thought. But I can’t agree with you if you say it sucks. I found many Debian based distros such as Mepis and Xandros to be really productive, fast and easy. I am not sure of the server deployment, but if the desktop deployment is compared I must say Mepis (a Debian distro) is better than any Redhat Enterprise Desktop.

Well, that’s my personal opinion.

]]> By: Bob Barker http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2003/09/08/why-debian-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1576 Bob Barker Sat, 03 May 2008 03:43:28 +0000 #comment-1576 You are 100% correct, and the guy behind me agrees. You are 100% correct, and the guy behind me agrees.

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