Ubuntu vs PC-BSD

TiberiusDuval said:
Does Slackware have decent package management system (ie. one capable of resolving package dependency issues)? Debian's package management system is one of Ubuntu's best features.

And Ubuntu's heaviness on resources depends on what desktop environment you are running. KDE or Unity yes it takes some resources, XFCE less, LXDE even less, E17 even less and so on...
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No. Slackware does not resolve dependencies. If dependency resolution is important to you I would stick with Debian or Ubuntu. True. If you install a lighter DE/WM Ubuntu will run faster. If I had to opt for a Debian based Linux I would choose Debian over Ubuntu. Debian has some annoying philosophical idiosyncrasies, but in my opinion Debian is a superior OS compared to Ubuntu.
 
I'd say dependency resolvation is quite important at least for someone not wanting to deeply study what every single application needs. Especially when one does not want to risk that installing some new application will break others. Isn't that also direction FreeBSD is taking with pkgng?

Debian is quite decent, though as you say it has some quite annoying philosophical issues.

Personally I use PC-BSD as my main os on my desktop machine. On my old laptop Xubuntu 12.04 works fine, most of my rather antiquated Lenovo T60's peripherals worked without any need for tinkering OS's innards.
 
TiberiusDuval said:
I'd say dependency resolvation is quite important at least for someone not wanting to deeply study what every single application needs. Especially when one does not want to risk that installing some new application will break others. Isn't that also direction FreeBSD is taking with pkgng?

Debian is quite decent, though as you say it has some quite annoying philosophical issues.

Personally I use PC-BSD as my main os on my desktop machine. On my old laptop Xubuntu 12.04 works fine, most of my rather antiquated Lenovo T60's peripherals worked without any need for tinkering OS's innards.
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A full install of Slackware works out of the box with all dependencies met. If you wish to install third party applications Slackware provides exceptional documentation about required dependencies. If PC-BSD and Xubuntu are meeting your needs then I would continue to enjoy your OSs.:)
 
Thank you everyone for follow-up posts regarding mine. I enjoyed reading them. It didn't matter if they were negative. We all get our minds made and are happy with something, that is the main thing.

I am curious if the person having problems running Peppermint was using an earlier version.

As to running Windows applications, I've had very mixed results with WINE on ANY operating system. Baseball Mogul 2006 works fine. It looks like it would have worked with the first Empire Earth had it not been for that introduction movie. SuperPower (from GolemLabs) worked on occasion and froze in other instances. Steam for Ubuntu did not work for CounterStrike: Source. But that was developed to where WINE wasn't necessary.

Moral of the story, continue to run Windows for those Windows-based games we can't live without.
 
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