Best Linux Distros 2013
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Topic: Best Linux Distros 2013
Posted By: levyte357-
Subject: Best Linux Distros 2013
Date Posted: 06 April 2013 at 7:00pm
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Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger. http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/708977-the-2013-top-7-best-linux-distributions-for-you" rel="nofollow - http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/708977-the-2013-top-7-best-linux-distributions-for-you Just broke Centos, trying to get app to work, so it's off my laptop forever. Will prob it on my spare desktop, but for now looking for best Laptop Linux. Contenders at the moment are Mint vs Arch Linux ------------- Global Depopulation - Alive and Killing. |
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Posted By: soundchippy
Date Posted: 06 April 2013 at 11:33pm
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As the mighty Ubuntu 10.04 LTS' support ends this month i have bitten the bullet and upgraded to 12.04 LTS on my ageing IBM X60s. Despite being a Unity hater I have managed to get it set up pretty nicely and it runs just as well as 10.04. Knowing 10.04's time was up I tried a load of other distros with traditional gnome2 style interfaces but none really did it for me. Fuduntu was prob the best one however it uses the fedora package system which i didnt like. Right now my vote is with 12.04. |
Posted By: levyte357-
Date Posted: 07 April 2013 at 1:16am
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Just installed Mint, and first impressions are good. Had me cursing at first during install, when GParted couldn't delete Centos lvm partition, after unclean shutdown. However lvremove sorted that, so all good so far. ------------- Global Depopulation - Alive and Killing. |
Posted By: soundchippy
Date Posted: 07 April 2013 at 10:13pm
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are you using mate or cinnamon? |
Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 07 April 2013 at 10:58pm
| Slax. Always Slax. Do it properly or don't bother. |
Posted By: ceharden
Date Posted: 07 April 2013 at 11:12pm
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I'm running plain old Debian on everything, mostly servers. I still haven't really got into Linux desktops. One day.... |
Posted By: cravings
Date Posted: 07 April 2013 at 11:17pm
i heard this is the year of the linux desktop.
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Posted By: ceharden
Date Posted: 07 April 2013 at 11:34pm
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Once I've dealt with the death of my server (not OS related), I might think about Linux on a desktop again! |
Posted By: soundchippy
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 12:29am
| What is everyone's criteria for judging? Mine is productivity. |
Posted By: cravings
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:01am
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i think distros are really down to stuff like package management and package selection. how well maintained and updated etc the repos are. do they have what you need? config files and stuff like that. if they're set up in a way that suits you / works well. installer... is obviously important but if it's right you won't use it much because your systems will be installed. stuff like window managers.. they're basically applications really. any distro that suits you should have a good choice of things like that. i use arch linux on my daily desktops. i used to be much more geeky about computers. spend hours staying up all night trying to get weird distros installed on weird computers or whatever just for the hell of it. can't be arsed with any of that any more. i like arch because.. you install it and you just have a base system. then you install the things you want to be there. window manager, login manager, applications.. whatever. and it's rolling release. i love rolling release. what keeps me away from debian / ubuntu etc is the whole apt-get upgrade / update thing when a new "version" appears. i'm sleepy and i can feel a load of aimless blah blah coming out of me.. but it's sort of as a response to soundchippy. isn't productivity down to your applicaions working etc? |
Posted By: infrasound
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:24am
| Real men use Gentoo. |
Posted By: soundchippy
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:30am
yes it is but along with a big wedge of subjective extras pretty much as you've outlined in your last post. for example, i just can get anything done on a kde desktop even if it is on top of ubuntu. |
cravings wrote:Posted By: soundchippy
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:32am
I heard only ladyboys use Gentoo. edit: spelling! |
Posted By: infrasound
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:35am
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DSL used to be pretty fun, running it off nothing but a mobo and stick of RAM Used to be a lot geekier than I am now  Ps. While I "enjoyed" Gentoo, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but serious masochists..
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Posted By: infrasound
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:37am
Got me
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Posted By: soundchippy
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:39am
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Posted By: levyte357-
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 2:49am
I'm using Cinnamon. Being a UNIX Developer, I've messed with Linux from the beginning, and initially only interested in the technical, heavy server distros. I used to judge Linux distros, by how easy it was to get ORACLE 9i/10g/Sybase ASE 12 up and running. As a result, was always drawn to things influenced by RHEL. Now, I've decided I need separate Linux for dual booting laptop, and dedicated Linux PC server. Seems will be Mint on the Laptop, and Centos or Fedora on the PC server. Main desktop is '7 x64. ------------- Global Depopulation - Alive and Killing. |
Posted By: audiomik
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 9:39am
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would suggest Centos over Fedora as Centos is more hardened for server use than the 'bleeding edge' of Fedora - from experience! Mik ------------- Warning! May contain Nuts plus springs, washers, screws, etc, etc. |
Posted By: mini-mad
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:29pm
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I use DSL to fix pc's and to prove the only thing broke in a pc is the HDD... and yes PSU, CPU, MoBo and ram...... good to go!! ------------- If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down. |
Posted By: levyte357-
Date Posted: 08 April 2013 at 1:43pm
Yep, Centos has always been great, until recently I screwed up some libs, and GUI failed to start on laptop. TBH, my fav *nix of all time is Sun Solaris, but x86 version install/hw support/apps, are "so" far behind Linux, it's a shame.  ------------- Global Depopulation - Alive and Killing. |