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Originally Posted by drmorbius
Ubuntu is quite mature now and I think it's more a viable alternative for the average bloke (and gal) on the street.
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Alls well and good if you can find software in the distributions repository to do everything what you want. If not you have to learn to compile code and become a computer 'hobbyist', as opposed to computer 'user'. Once you start down this path every kernel upgrade becomes potentially a saga of recompiling all your apps and hours of googling to find answers to fix the inevitable broken things that stop working.
For the most part, windows is windows. The libraries are there and again for the most part, things just work without dealing with a multitude of libraries requiring maintenance or command line tweaking.
Im now at a point where a needed application has had a long awaited functionality upgrade and Im stuck with a decision of forgoing it, or upgrading a 1year old linux distro that I have spent countless hours in configuring and im really loathe to go through the pain.