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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm curious to see if it's as broken as
ubuntu seems to be these days - feedback from adopters here
appreciated. <br>
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I spent 3 days last week trying to get ubuntu working with 13.10
on a fresh install, and since they're forcing use of a desktop cd,
and not producing alt installs now, found the install process to
be entirely broken. A new laptop with only EFI boot apparently
leaves me few options for distributions, namely excluding debian
which I was going to attempt to migrate to avoid ubuntu's steady
decline in quality/stability. Hopefully Valve heads this off
using the Ubuntu/Debian base. <br>
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I spent the weekend attempting to abandon Ubuntu and learning Arch
(or trying to) after the ubuntu fail, which wasn't exactly easy,
and simply finding just about every step requires some extensive
research of packages, lack of automagical setup, and sadly most
any ease found in Ubuntu I've apparently taken for granted. Not
to mention I'm not finding pacman packages for most things I
need/want (doubt Steam is going to be supported on Arch anytime
soon). <br>
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Maybe Valve injecting their two bits around Debian too will help
that, but I doubt it'll support more enterprise-y features like
raid, encryption, and lvm as part of the install features I need.
Then again, I wish Ubuntu would just put it back said features or
produce an alt cd again including them natively until someone
fixes their broken desktop installer.<br>
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-mb<br>
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On 12/16/2013 08:40 AM, Shawn Badger wrote:<br>
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<div>I don't know how this hasn't made it to the list yet, but
Steam released their Debian based gaming OS. <br>
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Here is a link to download it<br>
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