[PLUG] Distro suggestions

[wes]

I'm not saying Microsoft does or does not have anything to add to the Linux
universe, however I would point out that Canonical is big enough to
interact with Microsoft at a high level and not be swallowed whole by them.
I realize this has gone poorly in the past, but I don't think this should
disqualify them from participating.

-wes

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 4:58 PM Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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