Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Running back to Xubuntu from Fedora

After a couple of months stint with using Fedora as the Desktop OS for my home workstation, I’ve decided, to come running back to Xubuntu.

There’s no particular reason, aside from productivity. As much as I’d like to consider myself versatile, I _really_ don’t have the time to mess around with another OS at home.

I am used to Xubuntu. It’s light, fast and the real clincher here is the package manager aptitude and apt-get tools that allow me to explore any program at all whatsoever I wish to try out and neatly purge when I’m done with.

With Fedora, it looks like I’m going to need to learn how to use Yum. While it has come a little further than what it was in Fedora Core 4, it’s still no apt system. Not only that, but just the whole repository thing is just a little too crazy for me personally.

I mean, sure, perhaps the story would have been different if Fedora was the first linux OS I really got into, but well, in the end, I need to get productivity back. I’ve got clients waiting on work, and although I deliver before deadlines, I’m finding myself procrastinating a little and ending my nights about an hour later than I like to.

Anyway, this post is totally unrelated to anything specific for any OS, basically, it’s just another general Linux usage update.

In a nutshell - Why am I switching back to Xubuntu?

  • Because I use it as my primary OS at work, I’m used to it.
  • Because I understand it better, I’m used to it and so I work faster in it.
  • Debian based apt package management leaves Fedora’s Yum for dead.
  • I like the option they provide for installing proprietary software (something which would only happen when _you_want it to - FYI: It’s not forced upon users) - to be fair, this is also offered by Fedora, but it’s not as easy to manage repos - or at least it wasn’t as apparent to a new Fedora user like me anyway.
  • My hardware would be considered ancient.

All in all, I liked the polished Fedora shinyness. It looks very solid which is why I took the time I did to try to use it and try to get used to it, but in the end, I guess I’m just used to Xubuntu. I’ll definitely be revisiting Fedora every now and then to check up on how their package management and repository systems mature in the future.

» Filed under Linux by rvdavid at 0:34.

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