I'm not saying Microsoft does or does not have anything to add to the Linux universe, however I would point out that Canonical is big enough to interact with Microsoft at a high level and not be swallowed whole by them. I realize this has gone poorly in the past, but I don't think this should disqualify them from participating.
-wes On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 4:58 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > I suggest avoiding anything ubuntu-based simply because of their > interactions with microsoft. Which kind of sucks since Mint is decent for > laptops. > > > Feel free to ignore my 2cents if you think microsoft has something worth > adding to our platform. > > -Ben > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2019, 12:46 PM Ali Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
