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Originally Posted by BlackEleven
Nightmare? We are talking Ubuntu here. I think its your turn at spreading old myths 
As someone who uses all three major O/Ses daily, I find the repository on Ubuntu to be a huge step up over anything on Mac or Windows. You just click off the software you want on your machine, and all the install is done in the background without any further action required on your part. Want to uninstall? Just uncheck it.
And even better updates are downloaded as soon as they're available, and I have mine set to auto-install so all my software is always automatically update with no interaction required from me at all. None of those annoying "There's a new version of growl available click here to install" or "Windows would like to update please click here". And no reboots required either. |
Fair enough. It sounds like Ubuntu's come a long way. I ran a Linux box at the office last year, but I think it was Debian something or other. It certainly wasn't anything like what you're describing.
(I'm not doubting you at all, in fact I've heard lots of good things about Ubuntu - I'd just forgotten about that distro until Rathji mentioned it in his second post.)
Edit: openSUSE was what I used, not Debian.