[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

Chris wendlec at tcd.ie
Tue Jan 21 03:42:38 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 11:18:05 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 12:30:27 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> At work we use Ubuntu, however, I'm not at all happy with it 
>> and don't want to use it on my private computer. Which is the 
>> best alternative (I've been looking at OpenSUSE; Mint is based 
>> on Ubuntu/Debian but only shares the repository with Ubuntu 
>> (right?); Fedora has bad reviews at the moment and might be a 
>> pain to set up (drivers etc.)). I'm also considering FreeBSD, 
>> a completely different beast.
>
> FreeBSD with E17 is the best desktop I've ever used, very fast 
> and responsive.  You can quickly run or install PC-BSD to see 
> if it will go well with your hardware, then reinstall to 
> FreeBSD if you like it but don't want or need all the PC-BSD 
> extras.  The FreeBSD packaging system works very well.
>
> Arch is the one linux distro that reminds me of FreeBSD, 
> particularly pacman and the AUR, which is why it is the only 
> one I install these days.

How's the FreeBSD documentation / community? Is it easy to find 
solutions? ArchLinux is really good (from the little I've seen so 
far) and not as chaotic as "askubuntu".


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