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Which Distro Is Right For Me? (Redux)


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#136 compis

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Posted 01 February 2023 - 10:36 PM

I have not used Ubuntu in a while bit one of th eproblems is there updates don't show information like the version it is updating from and the new version.

 

Peppermint when i trie it did not show the version being installed. Only after installing you could determine the version and when running there is a forest background that appeared momentarily beofre going to my chosen background.



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Posted 10 May 2023 - 02:39 AM

I like Alma linux and Rocky linux because they are solid distributions similar to centos. I am still currently using centos but plan to switch to alma soon.



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Posted 30 June 2023 - 09:06 PM


This is what some "geeks" completely lose sight of. They become so completely consumed by the whole process of installing/un-installing/re-installing one OS after another, that for them, the afore-mentioned exercise ends up as the entire reason for having a computer in the first place..... 'Distro-hopping' is a phase all Linux users go through at some point; there's so many to choose from, and I know of very few who are completely happy with the very first one they try. In the end, though, most settle down with perhaps 2 or 3 that they can live with!

 

I had a brief flirtation with distro hopping but settled back into the distro I first installed - Linux Mint. I've been running it now for almost 4 years and it simply works. I do my day to day stuff on it and it is so much faster that any Windows counterpart.

 

I started out as a dual boot (Windows 7/Linux Mint 19.2 at the time) and when the support was dropped for Win 7 in January 2020, I reinstalled Linux Mint and used it as the one and only OS. Have never looked back. I also have an Acer laptop with Windows 10 on it and I (rarely) use it for any Windows specific stuff I cannot do on my Linux PC.

 

Despite all the advice etc, it's really what works for you and what you're happy with and be comfortable with your decision to do so :)






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