From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by tomordonez » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 3:39 PM UTC

I used Fedora a few years ago. Moved to the Mac. Moved to Ubuntu. Back to Mac. Back to Ubuntu. I might move back to Fedora. Any recommendations?

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by rfz » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 3:44 PM UTC

What's been your reasoning for switching every time? Pick a distro, stick with it, and learn to customize it to your liking.

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by mabynogy » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 3:46 PM UTC

Was on Fedora before. Debian is ok and better than Ubuntu IMHO.

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by tomordonez » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 11:06 PM UTC

rfz wrote: post #2

What's been your reasoning for switching every time? Pick a distro, stick with it, and learn to customize it to your liking.

simplicity. used for web browsing, terminal and listen to music. light. I tried installing Debian. Half an hour later the install crashed :)

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by rfz » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 2:21 AM UTC

tomordonez wrote: post #4

rfz wrote: post #2

What's been your reasoning for switching every time? Pick a distro, stick with it, and learn to customize it to your liking.

simplicity. used for web browsing, terminal and listen to music. light. I tried installing Debian. Half an hour later the install crashed :)

That's odd. No insight as to what caused it?

Generally shouldn't be much of a difference you'd notice for those tasks other than the desktop environment.

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by ch215 » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 10:27 AM UTC

After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by pacuna » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 8:50 PM UTC

I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora a couple of weeks ago (on a Macbook pro) and it's has been awesome so far.

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by tomordonez » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

rfz wrote: post #5

tomordonez wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

simplicity. used for web browsing, terminal and listen to music. light. I tried installing Debian. Half an hour later the install crashed :)

That's odd. No insight as to what caused it? Generally shouldn't be much of a difference you'd notice for those tasks other than the desktop environment.

the install was taking about 30 min. It said something like 'software install' error. Continue. Error loop. On the other hand I tried Fedora and it installed in 5 min. no errors :) yeah you are right not much difference. Ubuntu Unity and in Fedora Gnome 3 look almost the same to me. Although I tried Gnome3 on Ubuntu before too.

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by tomordonez » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

ch215 wrote: post #6

After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/

this looks very interesting and I like the screenshots but I wonder this is more for general use and not towards development use.

Re: From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

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Post by tomordonez » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

pacuna wrote: post #7

I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora a couple of weeks ago (on a Macbook pro) and it's has been awesome so far.

I am trying Fedora on a VM. It looks similar to Ubuntu. Trying to get use to the package manager. What are a few things you like about Fedora after moving from Ubuntu.