Except openSUSE. Fuck that, it breaks with the smallest thing and is just odd. But this was like 5y ago on Tumbleweed, so maybe it’s changed.
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No way! Opensuse has always been perfect for me, I do usually use leap though.
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Coming from Arch deviates and Fedora, i feel like they have really nice tools to repair anything going wrong. Maybe it was a big problem 5 years ago, but it looks like they worked hard on it and now they are ahead of anyone else in terms of getting on the right path again after breaking something.
Having Yast as a system administration GUI is also nice, as i don't have to google my way through countless configuration files all over the system figuring out what goes wrong.
Yeah last time I used it I broke it in 20 minutes lol. But then I used btrfs to get it back. Fun times.
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I swear that when I was a student, my department had a good mix of distros.
- Most students were on Ubuntu and Mint VMs.
- Students in system or HPC labs had to learn CentOS. However, my entry condition to my lab was to install FreeBSD as a guest on VMWare ESXi. Everything must be specifically partitioned and must be done in one sitting. (This happened illegally in the server room. I could not exit and hope to reenter, hence the rule.)
- Enthusiasts learn Debian.
- I don't know what happened to SlackWare people.
Kids these days? WSL or Mac.
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ZipSlack FTW
I won't judge you until you should know better.
Is Ubuntu still the go-to for home use?
Looking to use for things like web, office, Plex server, streaming, etc
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The arch wizard who introduced me to ubuntu
Ain't nothin wrong with Ubuntu (is Ubuntu still around?)
There are some things wrong with Ubuntu and Canonical, but if it solves your problems, you're doing it right.
It was once great, back in the glory days. Gnome 2 and Compiz, baby! It's still OK too, but not my preferred choice.
Out of interest, what's your preferred choice nowadays? I've always preferred to stick with Debian-derived distros so I don't need to learn a different package manager (silly, I know).
I guess I like the comfort/predictably of Ubuntu - I know what to expect, and how to fix it if things go wrong. But maybe I shouldn't be limiting myself.
I am on a Debian based distro as we speak! I'm using Crunchbang++. For me a perfect operating system is very simple and mostly just stays out of the way. Crunchbang is perfect for that. My setup is very minimal and probably wouldn't be ideal for most users. For most users I recommend Linux Mint, but if you are using Ubuntu and it's working for you there's nothing wrong with that! One of the great things about linux is the huge variety of options of distros to choose from. There's different flavors to suit everyone's needs. What makes this especially great is that under the hood, linux is linux, so for the most part you can use what works for you and not miss out on capability.
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Eh I love GNOME 3, especially after like 3.22 or so. It’s not very customizable, and that’s kinda the point. With KDE I spent far too long fussing with settings instead of getting shit done.
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