On 12/20/24 4:43 AM, Nathan Petrangelo wrote:
Hey all,
My girlfriend gifted me a new PC for xmas and now I want to go Linux shopping.
I’m aware of Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, and NixOS; are there others worth exploring?
Consider what you are used to and why you are investigating Linux.
A dozen years ago I abandoned MS Windows because they were(are?) in the
habit of telling users what they should want to do with their computer.
In a USENET group, a PLUG member pointed me to Ubuntu. It looked good
but I couldn't discover how to use it with a dial-up modem. But I easily
found the required documentation in its predecessor, Debian. I stayed
with Debian primarily because I found it more comfortable. I believe the
major difference was that one Ubuntu goal was being accessible to
computer newbies - I had purchased my first computer ~1977 and had been
introduced to computers as an E.E. student in the 60's.
What are their features and tradeoffs? While I’m at it, what desktop
environments
worth looking at, after Gnome, KDE, and Wayland?
Again the relevant questions are:
"What are you used to?"
"What do you want to do?".
My initial Debian desktop was Gnome 2. I tried Gnome 3 when it became
popular. It removed features I used regularly and I reverted until MATE
became available.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Criticism is interesting ]
Thanks,
Nathan Petrangelo
