Most stable linux distro?

[YoBoiAang]

What is the most stable, no compromises, document work friendly and decent looking Linux distro, Ubuntu crashes like a mofo.

Thanks!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Probably centos or debian.

[martward]

If Ubuntu isn't working for you, at least you won't have to try mint os.

[manikyath]

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Probably centos or debian.

*shakes his head slowly having just given up making anything of the debian tree run reliable on a system*

 

while i'd gladly recommend the debian tree, they have their own set of issues, and if OP manages to have ubuntu crash constantly i dont wanna see what he does to debian...

11 minutes ago, Andresteare said:

Ubuntu crashes like a mofo.

what the hell did you do to that poor distro?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

 

sounds like a hardware problemo mon amigo

my guess is either hardware, or more likely a problem in layer 8.

[Jalong]

Ubuntu is pretty much what you need. If you have a problem with it you may want to check the Ubuntu forums, you'll surely find an answer there.

[scienceblock]

Linux Mint has a nice looking interface and is very stable.

[manikyath]

15 minutes ago, scienceblock said:

Linux Mint has a nice looking interface and is very stable.

from some experience, if OP's gonna break ubuntu, linux mint doesnt stand a chance...

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

rom some experience, if OP's gonna break ubuntu, linux mint doesnt stand a chance...

Might as well give him hurd, if you don't use it you won't break it.

 

No usb support yet, no gig eth support, 25 years in alpha, but its STILL IN ACTIVE DEVOLPMENT.

 

/s

[manikyath]

17 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Might as well give him hurd, if you don't use it you won't break it.

 

No usb support yet, no gig eth support, 25 years in alpha, but its STILL IN ACTIVE DEVOLPMENT.

 

/s

wait.. no gbe support? last i checked every distro on my pile of ISO's (which i A LOT) support gbe.

[Electronics Wizardy]

22 minutes ago, manikyath said:

wait.. no gbe support? last i checked every distro on my pile of ISO's (which i A LOT) support gbe.

Its not a linux distro. Its the gnu kernel.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its not a linux distro. Its the gnu kernel.

i need sleep, i literally re-read your post 5 times and reliably read "give him a turd"

 

then again, probably not far off

[YoBoiAang]

Well, then probably is because I installed it in a laptop ?

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

1 hour ago, Andresteare said:

Well, then probably is because I installed it in a laptop ?

do you have a dGPU in that laptop?

I find debian is very stable and I only use ubuntu because it has a newer kernel. CentOS is also highly rated but i do not use it.

[vorticalbox]

15 hours ago, martward said:

If Ubuntu isn't working for you, at least you won't have to try mint os.

or any other Debian based OS.

[manikyath]

15 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

do you have a dGPU in that laptop?

I find debian is very stable and I only use ubuntu because it has a newer kernel. CentOS is also highly rated but i do not use it.

to be honest, on both my "nvidia optimus" laptops i dont have any stability issues, on one of them i've even done some linux-y gaming (no high end games tho, we're talking GT540m )

 

it's most likely something OP did wrong, but didnt realise he did wrong (like tick the wrong nvidia driver box, nvidia really needs to get their shyte together on that part...)

 

basicly, nvidia has 3 driver options for linux:

(and no, i dont remember the actual names )

- the opensauce one

- the closed sauce one for newer cards

- the closed sauce one for older cards (like the 8800GT)

 

the first one is the *safe* option, but not the performance ideal option, the other two are "better" but you dont want to mix them up

[YoBoiAang]

Nope, integrated graphics, checked ubuntu website for ubuntu certified laptops, mine wasn't there ?

[YoBoiAang]

On 03/12/2016 at 8:44 PM, SCHISCHKA said:

do you have a dGPU in that laptop?

I find debian is very stable and I only use ubuntu because it has a newer kernel. CentOS is also highly rated but i do not use it.

Nope, integrated, my model wasn't in ubuntu certified list ?

[Azgoth 2]

What Ubuntu version?  The current versions (16.04 for long-term support, 16.10 for most current) were being pretty buggy and unstable for a lot of people last I heard (might have changed since then, though).  Also, what are you doing when Ubuntu crashes?  Just regular stuff like document editing, web browsing, etc?  Or are you doing stuff like messing with drivers and deeper OS configuration settings?  If the latter, the issue is more likely what you're doing than it is the particular distro.

 

Anyways.  Give Debian a try.  Debian Stable is one of the most stable distros out there unless you're actively screwing with it--they do about a 2-year development cycle, during which they test the hell out of just about every part of the system.  It's also much more slimmed down than Ubuntu, so if some software thing happens to be the root of your crashes, it may not be there in Debian.

 

Depending on your level of comfort with it, OpenBSD would also be a super stable OS, though it's not technically Linux (it's in the BSD family, but it's got one of the strictest code review processes out there--every line of code gets tested pretty harshly before being committed to the official repositories).  The end-user experience is generally going to be pretty similar to Linux.