Here is my personal path in the Linux world:
- Caldera Linux, before 1999 It was not easy to find and install
the proper video and audio drivers back then!
- Red Hat 7 8 and 9, somewhere between 2002 and 2003
- Fedora Core1, 2, 3 and 4, from about 2003 to 2005
- Debian 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and currently 8, from about 2006 until
today.
- I have been using UbuntuStudio for music related work for few
years. Beside some issues with updates, I never had problem with
this distribution which has a lot of goodies included in their
default setup.
- There has also been short trials of Suse, Mandraque,
DamnSmallLinux, Ubuntu and more recently Mint.
- Knoppix is also to be noted as I used it some times to rescue
windows as well as Linux machines sometimes.
- Since Debian is likely the most stable OS there is, it can
behave as an OS, meaning I can forget about it's existence while
getting ahead with my work.
- It is the father, or grand father of over 60% of all
linux distributions.
- In the desktop OS it is not the most popular, but not
by much.
- It is the best distribution when server installation
comes to mind, which is a tribute to it's stability.
- It has the best packaging management system there is.
- Updates very rarely create issues.
- Now a day, the Debian installer does provide a choice
of desktop at install time. Gnome, KDE, Xfce and LXDE
are among the choices available. This is the single most
important improvement that recently occurred with
Debian, allowing installation of a GUI (or not) on
vintage machines, giving them a second life.
My main PC is currently built around 120GB SSD for the operating system,
1TB HDD for the /home folder, 12GB SDRAM, AMD Phenom X4 925 CPU and a
GeForce 9500GT video card connected to two 27 inches screens, a scanner,
a webcam and an HP2600N printer.
This setup has been running virtually unstopped since 2012... Except for
3 power failures, a few times when I moved the PC to another room, a
dead UPS battery that needed to be swapped, and annual heatsink dust
cleanup.
I have several PC's running Debian around the house, most of them have a
up time of more than 2 months. There is a small 9 inches screen eeePC
that ran for over 387 days without a reboot.
I am currently running these softwares on my main PC form time to time:
- Eclipse, especially for software development with atmel MCU's
in mind.
- MPLABX for Microchip MCU's development.
- Arduino IDE
- DOSBOX to run some old DOS games I still like to play
sometimes.
- Oracle's VirtualBox, when I need access to several machines at
the same time to do network topology development or when a
friend need help on Windows stuff.
- LibreOffice applications.
- Do not forgent the web browser Iceweasel and the Evolution
mail client, which are quite often the most used.
So, for the last 10 years, I can say that Debian Linux has held it
together without major issues for me.
Therefore, I conclude with the personal understanding that Debian is the
overall best distribution there is.
All the above being said, note that we have seen over 800 Linux
distributions created that had some significance, although there might
be less than 300 currently available. This is more than enough choices
to pick from when a specific need comes around.
Sources:
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&status=All
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
YLL
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> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:34:46 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]>
> To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Moving away from Kubuntu 15.xx
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> Using Now
> I moved away from Debian to a Fedora Remix.
> I have several Fedora 23 Remixes, Let me explainFedora has a policy of being
> FOSS (except for certain exceptions), to follow the rules of Red-Hat, the
> main sponsor.
> Pure Fedora does not include some codecs or libdvdcss or steam, or other
> software that make up a rich workspace package
> The Remix packages are just the basic Fedora23 (with updates) and the extras
> that Fedora can't promote. (Wonderful USA laws and lawyers who sue).
> But the Remixes are not USA based, and can be installed anywhere.
> I use Chapeau Linux http://chapeaulinux.org/ with Gnome. Visit the site
> to get an idea of the add-ons. This version is rock solid, and very
> enjoyable.I use Kororaproject ( Korora Project ) with XFCE and a second
> copy with GNOME. The XFCE is remarkably nice, and the Gnome version has
> software that Chapeau Linux does not include and vice versa).
> If you want a rock solid distribution, use one of the above two.
>
> I also have SUSE Tumbleweed, a KDE version. I am having problems with videos
> and youtube stuff with Tumbleweed. I need the video to follow some on-line
> courses I am taking.
> Ergo, I would just highly recommend you try Korora or Chapeau.
>
>
>
> Leslie
> Mr. Leslie Satenstein
> Montréal Québec, Canada
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> From: Patricia Campbell <[email protected]>
> To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 5:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Moving away from Kubuntu 15.xx
>
> Did you try using another CE with kbuntu if that's the distribution you like
> it may be the easiest solution, depend what the issues are. Tricia, using my
> droidHello everyone,
>
> I'm thinking of moving away from Kubuntu. Ever since I upgraded to the 15.xx
> branch, I've only had problems and frustrations. Today, after an update, I
> lost the sound system. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the based
> distribution, or if it's because of KDE and Plasma 5, but I'm kind of tired
> of spending so much time trying to fix this instead of using the system.
> Kubuntu 15 has been a huge disappointment to me.
>
> I want to stick with a Debian based distribution. I'm considering Debian or
> Mint. Mostly, I need to be able to install the latest Nvidia drivers for
> Steam Linux support. That's about my only requirements. Well, that and a
> stable system. I might moved over to Cinnamon instead of KDE as well.
>
> Has anyone moved away to a different distribution after years of using
> Kubuntu, and what are you using now?
>
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> From: Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]>
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> Try Chapeau | Fedora, for the desktop. or Korora Project Regards
> Leslie
> Mr. Leslie Satenstein
> Montréal Québec, Canada
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> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 5:31 PM
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> I tried Cinnamon earlier today, but the sound system is still broken.
> I've tried a few things to fix that issue, but nothing worked. I think
> it would be easier to do a fresh install at this point. Since I've had
> so many problems with either KDE or the core of Kubuntu since 15.04, I'm
> not sure installing Kubuntu again would be the way to go. I've lost
> faith in this distribution.
>
> ---
> Ravnox
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> On 2016-03-03 17:21, Patricia Campbell wrote:
> > Did you try using another CE with kbuntu if that's the distribution
> > you like it may be the easiest solution, depend what the issues are.
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> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:59:24 -0500
> From: Juhan Leemet <[email protected]>
> To: Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]>, Montreal Linux Users
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> Hmm, I moved away from Fedora to Ubuntu many years ago, because IIRC Fedora
> broke the automounter. Coming from Sun Solaris background, I had everything
> setup with automounter for home directories, and such. Recently, seems that
> Ubuntu? Linux? have broken the NFS delayed mount flag: _netdev? I had to
> patch this functionality by forcing “mount -a” at end of rc.local. Sometimes
> I think we are on the edge of “bit-rot” overtaking us.
>
> Have automounter and _netdev support been fixed in Fedora? Ubuntu? yet?
> Otherwise, I have been reasonably happy with Ubuntu LTS (now 14.04.3) +
> ubuntu-desktop for years. Not as stable IMO as Solaris, but “good enough”.
>
> Juhan Leemet
> Logicognosis, Inc.
>
> > On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:36, Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Try Chapeau | Fedora, for the desktop. <http://chapeaulinux.org/> or
> > Korora Project <https://kororaproject.org/>
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Leslie
> > Mr. Leslie Satenstein
> > Montréal Québec, Canada
> >
> >
> >
> > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 5:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] Moving away from Kubuntu 15.xx
> >
> > I tried Cinnamon earlier today, but the sound system is still broken.
> > I've tried a few things to fix that issue, but nothing worked. I think
> > it would be easier to do a fresh install at this point. Since I've had
> > so many problems with either KDE or the core of Kubuntu since 15.04, I'm
> > not sure installing Kubuntu again would be the way to go. I've lost
> > faith in this distribution.
> >
> > ---
> > Ravnox
> >
> > On 2016-03-03 17:21, Patricia Campbell wrote:
> > > Did you try using another CE with kbuntu if that's the distribution
> > > you like it may be the easiest solution, depend what the issues are.
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