“Editions” of Ubuntu

As you know, I run Ubuntu.

As you also (probably) know, I’m a student, and a Christian.

So you might think that it would make sense for me to be running edubuntu (Ubuntu for students) or Ubuntu Christian Edition (Ubuntu for Christians.)

But I don’t.

No, it’s not because I have something against it. And I think I’ll get the same support from the forums no matter which edition I’m running. And quite frankly I think it’d look awesome to have a fish in my circle of friends (the colored circle logo thing.) It’s because quite frankly I think it’s worthless to get a new 700MB iso and install a new operating system (with all the headaches of transferring files) just for a couple of packages I could just as easily get from Synaptic, and which I probably don’t need anyway. Edubuntu has all these great ‘learning tools’ (And Ubuntu Christian Edition has all these great Christian tools), but when it comes down to it–Am I really going to spend time playing some contrived game which reinforces my equation-solving skills? Do I really need a virtual rosary? (Heck, I’m not even Catholic). I think it’d be very worthwile to have ‘Bible Study Software’ on my computer, but I can just tack it onto my existing Ubuntu installation, on an as-needed basis. Computers get bloated enough–why bloat them more?

As for my fishy circle of friends? I’m sure there’s a simple theme change available.