simonlang Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Choice and flexibility are the hallmarks of a Linux distribution, and by extension the Linux ecosystem. With the proprietary Windows and OS X, you're stuck with the system as designed and can't make changes no matter how unpleasant you may find the experience. Linux distributions are free of such limitations. Each distro has the Linux kernel at its core, but builds on top of that with its own selection of other components, depending on the target audience of the distro. Most Linux users switch between distros until they finally find the one that best suits their needs. However, for new and inexperienced users, the choice of hundreds of distros, with seemingly little to distinguish them, can seem challenging to say the least. Largely speaking, Linux distros can be grouped into seemingly endless categories such as the default graphical environment, the underlying package management system, single developer distros or distros backed by large billion dollar enterprises, and so on. read the article here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 There is no doubt on which one is right for me and that's Debian all the way! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 There is no doubt on which one is right for me and that's Debian all the way! :) tell us a bit more about your linux history please. what distros have you tried and what made you stay with debian at the end? i started in 2009 with ubuntu used it for quite some time but also tried out several others like opensuse, fedora, elementary (too simple for me), even debian once, arch linux, fuduntu (i loved that one sad this project has been abandoned), linux mint, xubuntu, lubuntu, both very nice lightweight distros, solydK which looked promising but lacked several basic kde libraries, back to ubuntu when unity was a bit more developed and now since may i am using kubuntu 14.04 and since lately my own distro snapshot-linux which is basically the same, and thanks to a half-decent graphic card i can use kde with all its nice and awesome effects, plus 4 virtual desktops, lots of widgets and applets and so on. i love kde especially because of the sheer endless options it comes with. customization is easy and fun and it has never failed me once. runs perfectly stable. still trying out different distros in a virtual machine but none made me switch to it as my main os. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Account no longer active) Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Don't really care as long as it can run LXDE and includes a decent software manager. I hate it when people compare Linux distros based on default GUIs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer_Z Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 None of the above; on my work notebook I still have, and love, the Slackware distribution (14.1 now). I've tried linux since the college, back in the '90, with a Mandrake distro in the lab's pc and a Red Hat 6 at home. But the hard drives where too small to dual boot and so I had to uninstall it to play games :D At work there were a lot of Gentoo supporters back then but I used Windows XP for a while. In 2005 I decided to return to Linux and I tried the Slackware (10.1) and I loved it. I still have a compact Slackware 10.2 VM to run an old (ah the customers...) version of Bea Weblogic Server (now Oracle AS) for development. 123456789A 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Fail article - no Slackware? Aergan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Surprised there's no Arch. Then again, Gentoo has similar characteristics. Arch has the edge though in my opinion. It's faster to install / setup and doesn't require compilation for most packages. If I had to pick one from that list, it would be Gentoo though, without a doubt. Stage 1 build ofc ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Fail article - no Slackware? Indeed, Slackware got me through college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Indeed, Slackware got me through college. I remember installing it on a 486 off floppy disks in the 90s. Killer_Z and Aergan 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Fail article - no Slackware? If you know Slackware and are knowledgeable enough to install it then you probably aren't the target audience of a "what Linux is right for you" article. +E.Worm Jimmy and Max Norris 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 If you know Slackware and are knowledgeable enough to install it then you probably aren't the target audience of a "what Linux is right for you" article. Well that's only part of the title of the article. I took issue with the "10 best Linux distros" part. Didn't know Slackware was all that hard to install either! Seemed pretty straightforward to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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