So is this a good easy distro for a home user?

[Edward78]

https://solydxk.com/ I really want Mate, got used to it since using Mint. Anyway, that is a good easy rolling distro right?

[Sauron]

It's not rolling release afaik

[Edward78]

Just now, Sauron said:

It's not rolling release afaik

Really, I thought it was semi-rolling?

[Sauron]

Just now, Edward78 said:

Really, I thought it was semi-rolling?

Define semi-rolling? It has a 2 year stable release cycle after which you need to upgrade to use the new packages, that doesn't seem rolling to me in any way.

[Edward78]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Define semi-rolling? It has a 2 year stable release cycle after which you need to upgrade to use the new packages, that doesn't seem rolling to me in any way.

Hmmm, well can you atleast upgrade by downloading & updating the OS, or do you need to install again?

[Sauron]

9 minutes ago, Edward78 said:

Hmmm, well can you atleast upgrade by downloading & updating the OS

Well yes (at least I think so) but you can do that with Ubuntu as well and I don't think Ubuntu can be considered a rolling release. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with standard release distros, just be aware that solydxk isn't rolling.

[wasab]

Get Ubuntu. 

[as96]

Honestly if you are a beginner, rolling release distros are not ideal. You may want to stick with something like Ubuntu for a while and then if you want move to a rolling release take a look at Arch. It has a big community behind and the best documentation you can get.

 

Also you can get MATE up and running on any distribution if that's what you want.

 

BUT having said that, if you really want a ready to go rolling release distro with MATE take a look at Manjaro.

[rickymohk]

I found arch based somehow more user-friendly than ubuntu based when installing third party software. Using GUI pamac or octopi to install software from AUR is simply search and click, while adding ppa is a bit more work. Things get even worse if a ppa you want to use suddenly disappear and you will end up compiling from source code, getting into dependencies hell. Yeah you usually have to apt-get all dependencies you need for a software manually in ubuntu while pamac/octopi automatically grab them for you.  AUR makes things more reliable. This is just my personal experience you might not ever encounter though.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

A semi-rolling would be like KDE Neon, where the desktop environment & other KDE software are rolling, while the base itself (Ubuntu) is on an LTS.

 

 

[Nettly_]

To be honest get Pop!_OS or Ubuntu, depends on if you care on if you want up-to-date (Pop!_OS) or out-of-date (Ubuntu), (NOTE: I have yet to use 19.04 version of Ubuntu, I need to look into it sometime, I might be wrong with the out-of-date stuff but Pop!_OS is still better imo)