On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 9:21 AM David Fleck <[email protected]> wrote:
> For reasons not necessary to go into here, this long-time FreeBSD/OpenSUSE > user needs to move to a new laptop* Linux distribution, and I have the > following choices: > CentOS > Fedora > Mint > Ubuntu Of these, CentOS is the most stable. Which means that each release will get security updates for years. The downside is that your kernel and libraries can fall behind the curve after a while. Fedora is more bleeding edge. It's got all the newest drivers for all the newest hardware. And possibly all the newest bugs. As I recall, each release is only supported for 6 months, so you have to do regular major upgrades. Both CentOS and Fedora only provide pure open source packages. You can install proprietary packages (like codecs) but you have to jump through some hoops to do it. I've never used Ubuntu, except for an unfortunate experience with Unity. Mint is based on Ubuntu, but unhooks their unfortunate choice of window managers and provides a choice of different ones. You can install a long term release, which will be supported for years. And they make it easy to install proprietary packages. I used to use CentOS at work, and now use Linux Mint at home. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
