[kwlug disc.] best distro for "out of the box" home system?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 05 December 2007 09:54:44 unsolicited wrote:
> Personally, I'm getting irritated at the buntus. If your user is at
> all computer savvy, think solid XP user, go Debian testing with KDE.
> You can choose 'desktop' as a type and get much of what kubuntu gives
> you in terms of default things, while maintaining an ability to use
> most anything. In that most everything offers rpm's and debian source
> packages. Things 'just work' in Debian that don't in the buntu's. e.g.
> Compiling vmware tools. And you don't run into the debian snobs who as
> soon as you mention buntu send you back over there. Whom, of course,
> sent you to them in the first place. Debian has just as much, and
> probably more, support as the buntu's. Be it the forums or IRC. I've
> run into multiple unanswered questions in the buntu forums recently,
> reverting to google. Usually leading to a debian answer.

Yes, it's all Debian in the end, as much as I hate their GNU/ fanatacism.  
I've only run against xen issues, myself.  Everything else has just worked.  
I don't use forums for anything, only running into them when I search on 
Google...  :-)

-A.