[PLUG] Distro suggestions

[Ben Koenig]

I suggest avoiding anything ubuntu-based simply because of their
interactions with microsoft. Which kind of sucks since Mint is decent for
laptops.


Feel free to ignore my 2cents if you think microsoft has something worth
adding to our platform.

-Ben

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019, 12:46 PM Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 9:21 AM David Fleck <dcfleck at protonmail.ch> 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
>
>
> Of these, CentOS is the most stable.  Which means that each release will
> get security updates for years.   The downside is that your kernel and
> libraries can fall behind the curve after a while.
>
> Fedora is more bleeding edge.  It's got all the newest drivers for all the
> newest hardware.  And possibly all the newest bugs.  As I recall, each
> release is only supported for 6 months, so you have to do regular major
> upgrades.
>
> Both CentOS and Fedora only provide pure open source packages.  You can
> install proprietary packages (like codecs) but you have to jump through
> some hoops to do it.
>
> I've never used Ubuntu, except for an unfortunate experience with Unity.
>
> Mint is based on Ubuntu, but unhooks their unfortunate choice of window
> managers and provides a choice of different ones.  You can install a long
> term release, which will be supported for years.  And they make it easy to
> install proprietary packages.
>
> I used to use CentOS at work, and now use Linux Mint at home.
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