[OT] Good or best Linux distro?
Chris
wendlec at tcd.ie
Mon Jan 20 04:47:14 PST 2014
On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 12:34:33 UTC, Dicebot 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.
>
> It is always a good idea to list specific requirements first :P
> For example:
>
> - how comfortable you are with console tinkering?
Is fine with me as long as it doesn't get too much.
> - what is your preferred Deskop Environment / Windows Manager?
Most distros are flexible. Right now I'm testing Xfce.
> - do you need most recent versions for some software?
Not necessarily. But it might be handy to have a good updating
mechanism.
> - is having good out of the box support for D important? ;)
Should be fine as I'm considering OpenSUSE, Mint or (maybe)
Fedora. There are easy installers for all of them and dub works
on all of them, I suppose.
>
> etc.
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