<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:19 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:backuppc@sundquist.imapmail.org">backuppc@sundquist.imapmail.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 Mike said:<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> For my mythTV setup I have a dedicated backend and two frontends. All<br>
> systems run ubuntu 8.04 (but not mythbuntu as I don't like their<br>
> "improvements").<br>
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</div>Just curious, Ryan, which "improvements" do you find a problem? I'm no<br>
fanboi or anything, just curious.<br>
<br><div><div class="Wj3C7c">J.S.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a quick summary as to why I don't use Mythbuntu. The people behind Mythbuntu (and many other software developers) seem to think that having the user interact with a GUI and hiding what is actually happening is always the better way to design software. This seems to come from the general belief that using a GUI is "easier" then using a combination of command line input and man readable textfiles to configure software. But in my experience using a GUI and hiding the inner workings from the user is not always the best solution. I think configuring a MythTV computer is a textbook case where a forcing the user to interact with a GUI and hiding the details is the wrong solution.</div>
<div><br></div><div>When I used Mythbuntu and the MCC program I found it took significantly longer to configure a new installation and it took much much longer to troubleshoot anything that didn't work 100% after mythbuntu automatically configured it for me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now I have been using ubuntu for all my mythtv boxes since before mythbuntu and MCC was released. So I can directly compare the two choices. Also I have lots of experience with knoppmyth (before I switched to ubuntu), so I know how well a preconfigured mythTV setup should work. I saw no reason to to use Mythbuntu since all it did was frustrate me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ryan</div></div></div>