Debian vs Ubuntu - Part II

Before, here's part I .

Don't get me wrong. I don't think Debian is hard __at_all__.
By far, Debian is one of the best GNU/Linux distribution in simplifying life of its users.

What I mean is like this, in Debian, I can do many things much easily/confidently than in Ubuntu. Like auto-configuration of network, for example. In debian, I can just do `apt-get install laptop-net`, edit some configuration files, and 'Bismillah', I get network auto-configuration, which is very important for travelling laptop user like me.

Sure I can do the same in Ubuntu, but it just felt not right. With much of its customization, like the great job they done for power management, these kinds of things should've also at least been made simpler to configure, if not zero-configuration.

Even power management in Ubuntu still has some flaws, like hibernation that takes too long. This, I suspect because they are using in-kernel swsusp instead of the still out-kernel suspend2 which, by my experience, is faster and quite stable. I don't have a problem with this, if Ubuntu also provide ways to change to suspend2 easily. By now, I don't think Ubuntu provide this (and other kernel-related tweaking). Please CMIIW.

Can I just get the best of both worlds? (The most updated (desktop) packages in Ubuntu, with the ease of tweaking in Debian)

may be continued ...

Debian vs Ubuntu

For a start. I've to say, that I like them both.

But for my own uses, I think I'll get back to Debian.
One thing that I believe Debian is good at for me is, the fact that they don't customize much of their distributed softwares.

It make it easy for me to handle the craziness of the systems I'm installing Debian to. Mostly ofcourse they are the systems I'm going to use, or maintain.

While Ubuntu, I believe will be good for the people that don't want to mess with the internals of the systems, let alone changing the configurations here and there. May also never think of what the kernel really is :-)

And for now, for that very need of my own customizations, I'll get back to Debian.

to be continued ...