Why do you use Ubuntu

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Hi all, I don't want a flame war here but as I've noticed so many of you are Ubuntu fans I'd like to know why.

I must admit I don't like it at the moment as:

• It doesn't seem very customisable.
• It doesn't come with build tools.
• It leaves nothing Vanilla

There must be some good points to it (being easy to use isn't one of them, it was far harder for me than my Slackware 12 running fluxbox!)

Like I said, I don't want a flame war but just some sensible debating.

 

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Not sure what you mean with your third point I'm afraid.

Sorry about that one, by that I mean it uses all custom icons and patches that may not be strictly needed.

You can even change the GUI if you don't like GNOME.

I must admit, I don't like gnome in the slightest but I already knew of xUbuntu, I suppose what I'm getting at is the fact that it installs a standard system and only then can I change things rather than going bare-bones and asking me to add things or having a more 'in-depth' setup.

If you want/need build tools, install them.

Fair cop, after my last rant you're right on that one.

 

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Those are all fair points (I must admit I'm not man enough to get gentoo working, it keeps arguing with me.) Thing is, Ubuntu was my first distro, for all of about an hour. I hated the installer for being too basic but that's just me. (I tend to direct newcomers to fedora as the installer there is a nice balance)

 

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I shall admit now, the last time I tried it was in the 6.10 days and it picked none of my hardware up.