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Vote for the ones you reccomend!

 

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I voted for:

 

Mint - for its style and ease of use. Plus it is built on Ubuntu so it has a good foundation. (Mint is my Linux go to)

Ubuntu - because it is so well supported, stable and probably the best all round for someone looking to learn Linux. (would use it only I prefer the Mint interface)

 

Debian - Never used it but I have heard so much about it that I am voting for it. Ubuntu is based on Debian though (I think)

Fedora - Never used it but I have heard so much about it that I am voting for it. This is based on RedHat (I think)

 

I am not very knowledgeable on Linux :(.

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I voted for:

 

Mint - for its style and ease of use. Plus it is built on Ubuntu so it has a good foundation. (Mint is my Linux go to)

Ubuntu - because it is so well supported, stable and probably the best all round for someone looking to learn Linux. (would use it only I prefer the Mint interface)

 

Debian - Never used it but I have heard so much about it that I am voting for it. Ubuntu is based on Debian though (I think)

Fedora - Never used it but I have heard so much about it that I am voting for it. This is based on RedHat (I think)

 

I am not very knowledgeable on Linux :(.

 

Fedora Is red hat's consumer release.

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Fedora Is red hat's consumer release.

 

As someone who probably knows their Linux stuff, which would you go choose for the average power user. I mainly use Linux (on a VM) for doing general IT work. Formatting drives (covers most file formats etc. so it is just easy), setting up the odd server just to learn, and general dicking around with scripts and programming the odd time. Any reason I should choose one distro over an other?

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No Xubuntu? :(

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Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the xfce DE.

 

check the other of my two threads on linux for that.

I know, but still. I love it too much.

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I know, but still. I love it too much.

 

I still dont get why the ubuntu croud just takes the first letter of their spin and throws it on ubuntu.

 

Imagine Gedora, or Cedora, or Xedora, or Kedora, or Ledora or Medora, or Pedora, or Dedora or

 

I'll just stop...

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I still dont get why the ubuntu croud just takes the first letter of their spin and throws it on ubuntu.

 

Imagine Gedora, or Cedora, or Xedora, or Kedora, or Ledora or Medora, or Pedora, or Dedora or

 

I'll just stop...

Because it's easy to keep track of, for the most part.

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OptiPlex 7040M

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I used to use SuSe back in the day but I now tend to use Gentoo. The best thing about Gentoo is that I have everything downloaded as source code and it then automatically compiles for my hardware. It is faster than the others in this regard but then it takes considerably longer to install anything compared to binaries. Gentoo in that regard most certainly isn't for everyone plus it requires a lot of manual config editing.

 

For ease of use though it's either Ubuntu or Mint, though Ubuntu feels far too commercialised nowadays. In some ways it's a good thing and others it feels far too bloated. I think we should rename Ubuntu to Bubuntu.

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Hm hard question. Let's look at my linux history. I started back then with opensuse. Once I realized how slow this is I switched to ubuntu and then to mint with mate desktop. Both are damn good distros to get into linux. But mint was a bit to bloated for me while ubuntu. Well yeah unity isnt my favourite interface.

 

For now I have to say there is no best ever distro. Depends on what you doing there is one distro that fits the most.

 

Mint: Multimedia

Ubuntu: Starter

Ubuntu Next 15.04: Laptop, Mobile Lowpowerdevice  -> Link is here http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-desktop-next/daily-live/current/ Interesting thing

Elementary OS Freya/Luna: Build it yourself. Really it comes with almost nothing so you can build your own distro.

CentOs: Server

 

For now I use Ubuntu Gnome. Fits me the most. Because well yeah interactions are similar to android. I like it very much :)

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