On 5/9/23 17:16, John Dammeyer wrote:
I have a system based on an i7-2600K CPU @ 3.4GHz with 16GB RAM and 2TB hard
drive that used to run the 64 bit WIN-7.
For the Windows side of things I have a newer system with WIN-10 that is
ultimately upgradable to WIN-11. I have no desire to ever run WIN-11. But I
have to have Windows simply to support what my clients want.
I'm thinking it may well be time to set up a real workstation with Linux for email, browsing, writing, spreadsheets and CAD, etc.
The last time I looked into this there was quite a variety of user interfaces. From Caldera, RedHat etc…
What's currently the most supported user friendly Linux?
Thanks
John
I'm surprised you have to ask that John, its like you've been stuck in
2006 for the last decade and change.
Caldera was virtually gone when I built my first linux box in 1998, and
hasn't been heard of since, ditto Corel.
RedHat went commercial around 2003 and the last time I looked, a seat at
the RedHat table was $695 per machine a year, but the level of support
is great. When they did that, they also made Fedora for free but support
was at their convenience so there was always something important busted.
I jumped out of that frying pan, always playing lab rat for redhat about
3 years later, jumping to ubuntu and mandrake, but ubuntu turned into
windows & mandrake into mandriva and vanished.
When the next version of linuxcnc was based on debian I followed like a
good little sheep, finding a huge, knowledgeable user base where busted
stuff actually got fixed. A breath of fresh air indeed. And 80% of the
rest of this planet uses debian, either directly from the debian repo's
or indirectly by building from debian srcs.
My $.02, debian is where its at. And, unless some huge, show stopper bug
is found in linuxcnc-2.8.x, linuxcnc will be part of the upcoming stable
release of debian 12, aka bookworm. What's not to like?
Take care & stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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