On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:37:21 -0400 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi All,
Hi :)
I've been running Slackware since forever. It's time to grow up and see the world. Which distro would you recommend that I move to? Yes, I know it's personal, and reasons will be varied and educational.
in the early 2000's or late 90's this post would have been flamebait :) now we are far more mature and hindsight is perfect. (we even have new words like flamebait :) ) - some of us (like me) even made their own Linux distro's and some on this list are in OpenSuse and Fedora and other projects. imnsho, this post in 2022 is all about UI and with Google pushing mobile first, developers, of graphic UI's (even web based like cPanel and many others), are dropping new UI's that are becoming fast unusable to many of us. (I find myself spending 100+% more time on console when compared with 10 years ago - as I can actually and in fact deliver far greater productivity without all the overhead, risk and everything else that comes with overly developed UI's) for my 2c, maybe install some bsd... all popular Linux distros are great and cool! so maybe try all of them - and have fun! :)
- Ubuntu -- OK. I use it at work in VM and in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). For me, Mint is another flavour, just like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.
- Oracle -- I use it at work too. Was CentOS, but switched to Oracle because they said delivering end-of-life OS is bad marketing.
- Fedora -- OK. Doesn't seem to have its equivalent in Ubuntu side.
- OpenSUSE -- Difficult to pin down. It uses RPM but in their own way. It has rolling release (Tumbleweed) and versioned release (Leap).
- Arch -- no. I don't need/want to learn what they are trying to teach. I run Slackware, so I already know all that.
Thanks for any feedback. William --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk