[PLUG] Brief rundown of Linux distros?
Richard Owlett
rowlett at access.net
Fri Dec 20 12:50:46 UTC 2024
On 12/20/24 4:43 AM, Nathan Petrangelo wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> My girlfriend gifted me a new PC for xmas and now I want to go Linux shopping.
> I’m aware of Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, and NixOS; are there others worth exploring?
Consider what you are used to and why you are investigating Linux.
A dozen years ago I abandoned MS Windows because they were(are?) in the
habit of telling users what they should want to do with their computer.
In a USENET group, a PLUG member pointed me to Ubuntu. It looked good
but I couldn't discover how to use it with a dial-up modem. But I easily
found the required documentation in its predecessor, Debian. I stayed
with Debian primarily because I found it more comfortable. I believe the
major difference was that one Ubuntu goal was being accessible to
computer newbies - I had purchased my first computer ~1977 and had been
introduced to computers as an E.E. student in the 60's.
> What are their features and tradeoffs? While I’m at it, what desktop environments
> worth looking at, after Gnome, KDE, and Wayland?
Again the relevant questions are:
"What are you used to?"
"What do you want to do?".
My initial Debian desktop was Gnome 2. I tried Gnome 3 when it became
popular. It removed features I used regularly and I reverted until MATE
became available.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Criticism is interesting ]
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan Petrangelo
>
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