Re: [tlug] Ubuntu 10.04 - kernel update snafu

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

On 06/18/2014 08:05 PM, Brian Chandler wrote:
> First aside: If after reading a bit, you want to scream - "You are doing
> it wrong, you should be using Debian", or similar, please do. My biggest
> disappointment in adopting Linux was to find that the notorious hundreds
> of text files for configuration are hidden away never to be found.
"You're doing it wrong.  You should be using Debian."

There.  Now, I feel better.

I am using the KDE version of Debian.  It has a learning curve.  A 
fairly steep one.  With many pauses to allow for you being patted on the 
head and praised.

I now have a machine that is running quite well.  On just the seventh 
install in five days, but everything I messed up is now fixed and I have 
lost no work files nor work product.  Google, Duck Duck Go, or Bing must 
be your constant friend during setup and you will soon learn to preface 
every search with the term "Debian Wheezy: How do I _____".  And then 
secrets begin to reveal themselves.  And, not always from the first 
website among the choices offered.

If you do install Debian, I'd recommend that you _do_ not_install_ the 
latest version (7.5.0), especially if your printer is HP. v.7.4.0 seems 
to be the most universally compatible version until everything is 
installed and tested once.  Then you can upgrade. Manually installing 
from source eliminates tons of the problems that Apper seems to thrive 
on.  Allowing your installation to upgrade itself after everything is 
cleanly installed _usually_ eventuates in your having an up-to-date machine.

YMMV, of course.  No doubt that it will.

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CL