Friendlier install

Friendlier install

Posted Oct 21, 2004 18:04 UTC (Thu) by maney (subscriber, #12630)
In reply to: Friendlier install by HoserHead
Parent article: Ubuntu Linux and the future of Debian

If you'd like to stop trying to understand from a distance and get close enough to try it yourself, you might learn something of interest. I've installed both from recent installer releases. I can't speak to the default disk partitioning, because I never use that; the rest of the install *is* simpler with Ubuntu IME. I can point to one mildly crufty piece of hardware - the "yenta" PCMCIA annoyance in our Inspiron laptop - that Debian trips over, but Ubuntu (and Libranet before it) handle just fine.

So, no, just as the common origin of most of the packages (both started from a snapshot of Sid, more or less) don't mean the packages are all identical, the use of debian-installer doesn't insure they behave identically dusring the eraly install phase either.

I'm thinking that Ubuntu ought to be described to Debian users as "Try it, you'll like it!" :-)

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