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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 zxcvcxz »

>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 keeping up with Ubuntu, they are now investing all of their time in making Cinnamon better.

I don't understand how Mint is better than Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a total OS X replacement for me (I'm a full stack dev). The only reason I see to use Mint is if you prefer traditional desktop interfaces over more modern ones.

>If you are looking at running a server, but you can’t afford or don’t want to pay a subscription fee for RHEL or SLE, then there is nothing better than Debian or CentOS. These distributions are the gold standard when it comes to community-based servers. And, they are supported for a very long time, so you won’t have to worry about upgrading your system so often.

I've been really satisfied with Ubuntu server, it just works. Debian isn't bad but I find it takes more configuration than Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu on my home server to run containers which I remotely connect to and use as development environments. I've found that Ubuntu seems to have the best out of the box support for lxc-containers so I have no reason to move away from it.

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Post by _lbaq »

Surprised not to see Fedora at the top of the list. Fedora 23 is remarkably stable, great UI, easy to maintain, and can be upgraded in-place to the next version using the new upgrade tool, no more reinstalls.

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

_lbaq wrote: post #5

Surprised not to see Fedora at the top of the list. Fedora 23 is remarkably stable, great UI, easy to maintain, and can be upgraded in-place to the next version using the new upgrade tool, no more reinstalls.

Was also surprised at the lack of love for Fedora. I just became a convert after trying to get half a dozen other distros running on my laptop and dealing with various hardware or driver problems. Fedora was the only one where I loaded it up and the touchscreen, trackpad, and Hi-DPI monitor "just worked".

The "bleeding edge" thing might be a turn-off for some, though. I've only had Korora (a Fedora spin with some pre-loaded apps and themes) for less than a month and I've already downloaded two kernel updates.

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