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The Best Linux Distros of 2016

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Re: The Best Linux Distros of 2016

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Post by Scarbutt »

zxcvcxz wrote: post #2

>Linux Mint Cinnamon is the best operating system for desktops and powerful laptops. I will go as far as calling it the Mac OS X of the Linux world. Honestly, I had not been a huge fan of Linux Mint for a long time because of unstable Cinnamon. But, as soon as the developers chose to use LTS as the base, the distro has become incredibly stable. Because the developers don’t have to spend much time worrying about keepi…

Curious, for server side stuff, what tasks requires more configuration in Debian than Ubuntu server? I haven't tried Ubuntu but their LXD looks helpful, think of switching also because of systemd 229 in Xenial, Debian's stable systemd version is old and clunky.

Re: The Best Linux Distros of 2016

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Post by laichzeit0 »

Zorin should be on that list.

It's made me enjoy using Linux again and reminds me of how fun Linux was when Enlightenment was still cool. Mint really let me down the last couple of versions.

One of the most underrated Debian based distros out there right now.

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Post by tbrock »

justinsaccount wrote: post #14
brown wrote: post #6

How do you tell if someone uses Arch Linux? They tell you.

The funny thing to me is that arch ~2016 is gentoo ~2004. The claims about how great arch is are almost word for word what people used to say about gentoo.

Except not at all because one is all about compiling for speed and tweaking cflags. The other is about a rolling release as better desktop distro model.

Sure both distributions let you build your system from scratch but the days upon days of compiling just to slightly optimize a binary is squarely a gentooism.

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Post by ake1 »

i wish there was a distro that worked well with my hardware out of the box, preferably without any applications that i do not explicitly choose to install.

i have no interest in setting up pulseaudio/alsa or having to set nomodeset in my grub config for the 20th time.

Re: The Best Linux Distros of 2016

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Post by hugh4life »

Ubuntu Mate is my favorite distro... but I run the i3 tiling window manager over it.

I don't know if I'd use it or not, but I'd like to see an attempt to make an ubuntu or debian based distro centered around a tiling window manager(preferably i3). From my experience, i3 provides to the desktop what tabbing provides to browsers. One thing I like about tiling WM is that there is not "native" GUI so there can't be any snort of snobbery about what is or is not native.

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