Hardy's slower than Gutsy

[Tsarevich]

My copy of Ubuntu just arrived and just installed. I installed Ubuntu and found that Hardy is just slower than Gutsy. I have returned to my 7.10. One thing that they have done good is that now Edubuntu is an addon CD. Not an independent OS. Or you have to download all software and Edubuntu is only ued for networking. So there's no point of calling it Edubuntu, its 'Netu'Buntu.

Anyways, hope the Intrepid Ibex is better. Ubuntu IS becoming more demanding when it comes to RAM. They have increased the minimum to 384. Maybe Gutsy should be my major slave till years.

[bidi]

I got my copy a few days ago as well. Tried installing it on a brand new computer with Vista on it, but had a few problems so just decided to go for Debian. I did, and as always am really happy with the decision of going with Debian. I installed the whole GNOME desktop (apt-get install gnome) on a Testing install. Had a few issues with the kernel, but it was easily resolved. I'm writing this and "System Monitor" is saying 108MB of used RAM, out of 1GB.

I gotta say, I'm not feeling warm and fuzzy about Ubuntu anymore. My dad has it installed on a laptop, and with every upgrade it just degrades more and more. Not to mention this is an LTS release, it should've been flawless. I guess I just like Debian better.

[SagaciousKJB]

I got my copy a few days ago as well. Tried installing it on a brand new computer with Vista on it, but had a few problems so just decided to go for Debian. I did, and as always am really happy with the decision of going with Debian. I installed the whole GNOME desktop (apt-get install gnome) on a Testing install. Had a few issues with the kernel, but it was easily resolved. I'm writing this and "System Monitor" is saying 108MB of used RAM, out of 1GB.

I gotta say, I'm not feeling warm and fuzzy about Ubuntu anymore. My dad has it installed on a laptop, and with every upgrade it just degrades more and more. Not to mention this is an LTS release, it should've been flawless. I guess I just like Debian better.

Well, 7.10 didn't give me any problems. In my opinion, it was the golden release. When I upgraded from it to 8.04 though, it really screwed some stuff up. Couldn't figure it out, so I clean installed to 8.04. Everything is fine again now, but the upgrade processes seem to be getting a little bumpier.

I've always liked Debian more as well, it's fast and stable, but the problem with it I've always had is that the stability of it makes the packages pretty out of date. I don't particularly mind having to set things up manually anymore, but as a newbie that turned me away, but now I'm just reluctant to switch to it because of the older packages. I need to figure out how to use the other versions of it, unstable and testing I think.

[bidi]

I don't particularly mind having to set things up manually anymore, but as a newbie that turned me away, but now I'm just reluctant to switch to it because of the older packages. I need to figure out how to use the other versions of it, unstable and testing I think.

Well, I use Testing, which is bit of in the middle... the packages aren't out of date but also aren't unstable.

It's easy setting it up. You have two options: (1) Getting the Stable install CD installing it then upgrading by editing /etc/apt/sources.list, all you have to do here is change any instance of "etch" or "stable" to "testing". (2) Getting the Testing install CD... this one isn't easy to find, but it's not hard either. I like (2) better since I don't waste any time having to download 2 version complete installs. The problem with it is that you need to get a new CD every time you do an install since the packages get old really quick.

[danbuter]

I had the opposite experience. Gutsy was just awful on my Acer. Hardy works like a charm. I also have 1 GB RAM, so memory is not an issue.