[PLUG] Distro suggestions

[Roderick Anderson]

My call is Linux Mint.

I was a Redhat based user for years starting with Redhat.  Used Fedora 
for classes at the local community college.  Shifted to CentOS for 
servers and desktop.  Tried one of the first Ubuntu and hated the user 
interface.

Lots of folks from the local Linux user group were using Linux Mint so I 
tried it.  That was years ago.  Been using it since.  Played with Debian 
but Mint was way too easy.

I have it running on a 12 year old Lenovo desktop - 18.3 - getting ready 
to upgrade to the 19 series.  I have installed Linux Mint 19.1 on at 
least 10 older laptops, 1 ASUS eeePC, and a few desktops.

The only problem I and others have run into is with some Broadcom 
wireless chip sets.  Connect with a wire then it's a two command line 
fix followed by a reboot.

The install is pretty easy.  Most defaults work.  The one thing that I 
have to look out for is the option to install third party drivers.  All 
those we love to hate.  I install them and had no real problems

I don't much care for the default desktop so I have to do some tweaking 
to get it like the old Gnome 2 layout (I think that's what it is.)  Main 
panel on the top, menus upper left, etc.


Rod
-- 
On 6/29/19 9:20 AM, David Fleck wrote:
> For reasons not necessary to go into here, this long-time FreeBSD/OpenSUSE user needs to move to a new laptop* Linux distribution, and I have the following choices:
> CentOS
> Fedora
> Mint
> Ubuntu
> 
> I use CentOS in a text console / server at work, and it seems okay; I'm not familiar with the others at all. I seem to remember Ubuntu being described as more Windows-y than most distros, which I don't care for. But I'd like suggestions as to the pros/cons of the four listed above as laptop OS'es specifically.
> 
> (*ThinkPad Edge E531)
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance--
> 
> --
> - David Fleck
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