Quote Originally Posted by Erisianmonkey View Post
Ardchoille: What is it that Automatix does that can't be done with Synaptic or Adept? Other than be a hazard to your system, I mean? I realize you've been speaking against it, but I thought you might know.
Since Ardchoille hasn't been around, let me toss my two cents in.

It looks as if Automatix makes some modifications that are not 'standard' and those mods end up causing problems down the road with upgrades. If you get familiar with Synaptic or with the sudo apt-get install command, you can do pretty much anything Automatix will do. And then everything will be properly installed and should not present a problem with future upgrades.

I was struggling to find Kompozer yesterday afternoon, when it suddenly struck me that I didn't have to find it. I could just rely on sudo to do it for me. A few seconds later, Kompozer was running. Let's see the Windoze users do that with an HTML editor install. I had Kompozer installed before a Windoze user could type in a license number and click to agree to all the restrictions on an install.

It's been a week since I wiped Windows and I'm loving Gutsy. I see people are struggling with it, but I must have had beginner's luck. It took a bit of tweaking to get Gutsy to play well with my ATI Radeon X1300, but once I got that handled (maybe 15 minutes effort?), everything has been smooth as silk. And with the way Storm is rearing its ugly head again, I couldn't be happier to not be using Windows. Especially when the people at Symantec and McAfee are pretty much not saying anything about Storm, other than warning people to not open attachments. LOL, that's like telling children not to unwrap presents. For the non-geek Windoze users reading this thread, you need to know that Storm is very real and is very nasty. How about a Trojan that will fight back with a DDoS if you try to remove it? Welcome to Storm. Keep your anti-virus software absolutely up to date and you're still open to being infected with Storm. While the Linux users sit back and wonder why you're running the risks you are.

I've been installing some nightly package builds for a script on a three of my own forums, this past week. After years of using SmartFTP, it has taken an open mind to find an FTP client that I am comfortable with. FileZilla and gFTP didn't feel quite right, but I'm now using KFTPGrabber and life is good again. Once you get over things looking different, you come to the realization they work every bit as well. And in some instances, they even work better!

The only problem I have with Ubuntu is that it took me until Feisty to get up the nerve to just do it.