Here's a blurb from an article I read on on /. that got me thinking about my decade long journey w. Linux distros./ "To little surprise, Ubuntu was the most popular Linux distribution running on the respondents' laptops.38.9% of the respondents were said to be using Ubuntu <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2017-laptop-survey>while interesting in second place was Arch Linux at 27.1% followed by Debian at 15.3%. Rounding out the top ten were then Fedora at 14.8%, Linux Mint in 5th at 10.8%, openSUSE/SUSE in sixth at 4.2%, Gentoo in seventh at 3.9%, CentOS/RHEL in eighth at 3.1%, Solus in ninth at 2%, and Manjaro in tenth at 1.6%. The other Linux distributions had each commanded less than 1% of the overall response/"//
I suspect a lot of PLUG'ers are Ubuntu users. I tried various Ubuntu versions over the years and there was always things I didn't like such as upgrades, silly audio probs, or that it ran slower compared to Debian based distros. So I mostly ran Debian and lived with non-fully functional Desktop Enviros, or wireless driver probs, or going into or coming out of suspend mode would b0rk up the works. I often had to hack on Debian, which at times was fun & interesting and at other times was really frustrating & annoying. Last year I cam across Deepin. It's a Debian based distro w. their own Desktop Enviro. And not only do all the lil' things work as you would expect like w. a MS Win or MAC OS, it works well, is beautiful and fast/fluid. Rolling updates are quick & painless. I didn't have blacklist my onboard sound to use external speakers or figure out what the correct wifi driver to use is. Deepin has also made its DE available to most other popular distros. After a decade of running Linux on personal computers, for me the dream of the Linux Desktop has finally become a daily reality for this quite happy user! It has been a most glorious year of running Linux. The best in a decade I can honestly say. It's not my intention for this to be an advertisement but just a sharing of my experience of the evolution using Linux and the Desktop Enviro. Something which many Linux devs never cared about for many years. Happy Linux-ing! Cheers!, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
