On Thu, 28 Aug 2025, Richard Guy Briggs via linux wrote: > On 2025-08-28 13:21, Robert P. J. Day via linux wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2025, Bryan Larsen via linux wrote: > > > > > I'd recommend Debian Trixie instead of Ubuntu 25.04. They froze at > > > about the same time so have similar versions of software, but Trixie > > > is a long-term-stable release. > > > > unfortunately, there is a certain amount of ubuntu inertia here, but > > you have piqued my interest so i will at least look at it. > > I'd go with Bryan's suggestion here. I'd lost faith in Ubuntu more than > a decade ago when it would not install on reasonably ordinary desktop > hardware while Debian still did. On top of that, I don't trust > Shuttleworth with open source licences. Much as I dislike RMS, I do > trust him with licences. well, no one expected the spanish inquisition. :-) i may give devian trixie a test drive (in spite of the inevitable pushback i might get given the ubiquity of ubuntu at my place of work), but since it's my personal laptop and as long as i can get things done, i suspect i will be fine. i installed trixie on the new machine and it went smoothly (simply asked for a separate /home filesystem, no other changes), now i just have to get used to a different desktop. rday To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org