On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 16:37:09 -0500 (EST) Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all, Hoping your holidays were magical. My question comes from a discussion on a Linux and disabilities list. New person frankly bewildered by why there are so many Linux distributions at all, along side the benefits of say a specific kind of desktop over another. Got me wondering in general what motivates you to prefer your distribution of choice? That too, with my actually wondering indeed why there are so many Linux distributions, how all those editions helps someone outside the operating system make a choice. Just curious, Karen
Karen, I am a Fedora guy. I started with Slackware back in 1994, then I tried Red Hat. Fedora is Red Hat's home distribution. It works. I am used to it, and I have learned how to install it and make it do exactly what I want. I was playing with other distributions, and I wrote up some notes on how to install stuff and make it work, http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/Linux.html. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson