 DonoftheDeadOld diver
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Re: What distro would you choose?Mint seems to be the easiest to install on laptops with UEFI/Secure Boot but most the distro's I've tried go on desktops effortlessly pretty much. As easy or easier than Windows and no activation bs either. I'm getting an i7 refurb desktop soon and I'm going dual boot with W8.1 (I paid for the key so I may as well use it) and a Linux distro. Don't know which one yet. A good opportunity to experiment, would like to get away from systemd though. |
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I changed to Manjaro KDE and now can't go back to anything else.. It is near perfection for me. |
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Don't know which one yet. A good opportunity to experiment, would like to get away from systemd though.
In the Debian family, rotsaruk! I've given up. But other things holdup going past 16.04 right now. Devuan, OUTDATED, slow work, is about the only thing in the family. If you want to venture to other lands, then I think there are a few that are based off RPM setups, that have elected not to with that infestation. |
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silbaco
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Slackware, Gentoo, and PCLinuxOS are the only major distros I know of that don't ship with systemd. PCLinuxOS is the only one I would actually consider using on a desktop. |
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MX17 with Xfce. MX17 is being developed by the Antix and Mepis comminities according to this: » mxlinux.org/. Been trying this for a couple of months and it's been great. |
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Salix with XFCE. A Slackware based OS with dependencies management. » www.salixos.org/ |
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Slackware... on everything x86 or x86_64 (desktop, laptop, netbook, router, servers, VMs & LXCs). I'm toying with ARM now. |
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xrobertcmx
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I prefer KDE myself, but Cinnamon is not bad or too far from the Windows GUI. |
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I prefer KDE myself, but Cinnamon is not bad or too far from the Windows GUI.
I only use KDE based distros. Period. Asd KDE sticks to the GUI paradigm that most users expect. |
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xrobertcmx
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So does Cinnamon. KDE is just more configurable, and uses less memory. |
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Vamp5c077
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I like both KDE and Cinnamon.. Both DE are making great progress. But I prefer KDE for many different reasons, especially the window management. |
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silbaco
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said by adsldude:Slackware... on everything x86 or x86_64 (desktop, laptop, netbook, router, servers, VMs & LXCs). I'm toying with ARM now. Would you really recommend Slackware for someone who can barely use Windows and really has no interest in learning Linux? I can't imagine that being anything but a nightmare for everyone involved. |
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xrobertcmx
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Installed NEON this weekend on my little 11e (AMD A4-6210) and 5.12 is really pretty amazing. |
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I nightmare? LOL. When is the last time you tried Slackware? |
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I sure would recommend Slackware 14.2 (stable). For example I converted my wife's and my 86 yr old father's laptops years ago. Both of them converted from Windows. I continue to provide support to both for periodic critical updates and occasional new software installation. |
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I'm thinking of getting away from systemd too. I think I'll try Devuan as it was created especially for Debian people to get away from systemd. Debian is a hard habit to break though as I've used it for so many years. If they hadn't gone systemd I wouldn't think of leaving. And I'm leaving more over the security issues with systemd than any experience with operational issues. |
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silbaco
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said by chrisretusn:I nightmare? LOL. When is the last time you tried Slackware? Been a while. But not much appears to have changed. I personally don't like playing support for friends/family members so if I install a Linux distro on one of their machines, it's going to be an LTS distro that they can easily update and maintain themselves with little chance of it breaking. Slackware doesn't fit the bill. PCLinuxOS is also another option. Not an LTS, but its such a slow moving rolling release that as long as they update it once a month it will last for years before it requires my attention. |
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I think Mint Cinnamon is stable and easy to maintain.
Over the last couple months I have been testing Manjaro KDE and I really like it. So far having a rolling release hasn't created any problems. |
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The day after I posted and said I was thinking of switching to Devuan I made the switch. There's a few differences, but no major ones, and all software packaging and package management is Debian. I am running their ascii release and it is very stable with a much shorter boot time than I had with Debian, but that is mostly due to me not running so much in the background with Devuan.
As I'm running the same DE, XFCE, everything is the same desktop wise. I have to say I wish I had made the switch earlier, but I'm a creature of habit, so delayed making the change. |
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Switched to Bodhi Linux quite a few years ago, quite happy and quite content. Use on new computers, 10 year old systems, and older. Edit: removed part of post. |
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