[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[yuri]

On 28/06/07, David McNab wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:19 +1200, yuri wrote:
> > As for the plethora of distros, Ubuntu seems to be the home user distro du jour.
>
> A major component of a distro's overall quality is the size of its
> userbase.
>
> When one is struggling to get program X working with hardware item Y,
> adding in kernel patch Z and hacking n config scripts full of ASCII
> hieroglyphics, it's major reassurance to be able to google through
> mailing lists and find some other poor buggers who've struggled with the
> same problem, and one or two who have got it working and posted their
> howtos.
>
> With a smaller userbase, the well-written HOWTOs, the graphical config
> utilities and the nice HTML manuals tend to disappear, to be replaced by
> IRC channels and mailing lists full of techno-snobs yelling 'ffs! rtfs
> you $&#@%^ n00b!!!'

Since Ubuntu seems to be so successful and has the advantages of a
high userbase that you mention, I don't see why ISPs and hardware
manufacturers can't support at least that distro.

Yuri