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The most interesting recent Linux distro that I have encountered is Void Linux. It's a minimalist rolling update distro. It is not a fork of anything already existing. It is basically a demo for a new package manager called xbps. * http://www.voidlinux.eu/
I have finally found my sweet-spot between being a total neckbeard (Arch) and following trends (Ubuntu) by simply starting with a minimal Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian installer and then installing whatever desktop environment I choose (I like MATE because it's non-intrusive and fast enough for me). I usually use less than ~10% of the software that comes pre-loaded with most distros.
>Linux Mint Only if you don't value any sense of security
Could you elaborate on this? I know many people have security concerns about Mint, but I've never found their arguments entirely convincing. the opinion of the Mint devs seems to be that there's a stability vs. security tradeoff, and that Ubuntu chose one point on the spectrum, while Mint chose another. And that for a typical desktop machine sitting behind a router without a lot of ports open (or behind a corporate f…
https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
Best minimal Linux for container : https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine
I do not agree with elementary OS as best-looking distro. Imo this award should go to manjaro kde.
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Could you elaborate on this? I know many people have security concerns about Mint, but I've never found their arguments entirely convincing. the opinion of the Mint devs seems to be that there's a stability vs. security tradeoff, and that Ubuntu chose one point on the spectrum, while Mint chose another. And that for a typical desktop machine sitting behind a router without a lot of ports open (or behind a corporate f…
This has been thoroughly discussed when the website was compromised. https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11149839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11142986
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> ...over more modern ones. No, for many of us it is not about modern. I love modern. Ubuntus problem is they copied a bunch of Mac-isms for what seems to be no good reason. Now hear me out: I almost love Apple, I just cannot get myself to use their products (OK, did, three years, was happy to get a PC again) and there are a lot of things that should be learned from Mac. Out-of-the-box experience etc. Other Mac-isms…
> "I love modern. Ubuntus problem is they copied a bunch of Mac-isms for what seems to be no good reason." There is a very good reason for the direction Ubuntu went with Unity. The clue is in the name. The Unity interface is the way it is because it's designed to work on both large screen devices and small screen devices, and with mouse and keyboard and touchscreens. Take a look at the Ubuntu Touch interface, notice…
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.
If the userspace people had their way, the option would likely have been ripped out long ago.
>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…
> ...over more modern ones. No, for many of us it is not about modern. I love modern. Ubuntus problem is they copied a bunch of Mac-isms for what seems to be no good reason. Now hear me out: I almost love Apple, I just cannot get myself to use their products (OK, did, three years, was happy to get a PC again) and there are a lot of things that should be learned from Mac. Out-of-the-box experience etc. Other Mac-isms…
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This has been thoroughly discussed when the website was compromised. https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11149839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11142986
Yeah, I know about that. Certainly, not a proud moment in Mint's history, but it got resolved quickly. But I'm not going to rule out Mint just because they got hacked once. kernel.org got hacked, after all.
Also, kernel.org was hacked because a rootkit gained access to their servers, not because they used a weak password like `upMint`, so you shouldn't compare both incidents.