[clue-talk] best/worst/most interesting distro?
Mike Bean
beandaemon at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 19:59:41 MDT 2010
I do think it's interesting that the responses haven't been what I thought
they'd be. I assumed we'd be a smaller sample of the population as a whole,
but we've had at least as many people answer that their distribution of
choice is one outside of the top six, as people inside the top six. I would
certainly agree that the diversity is part of the appeal.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Maxwell Spangler <
maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:13 -0600, Mike Bean wrote:
>
> > I keep an eye on distrowatch, and I don't think it'll shock anyone to
> > assert that most people use the to 6 or so distros on their list, both
> > at home and at work, but I got a little curious. Someone's using
> > those other distros, somewhere... So I thought I'd just come over and
> > ask for opinions, what's your best/worst/most interesting distro?
> > What do you use at home? Provided there are those of us out there,
> > who don't automatically use Ubuntu.
>
> I use Fedora at home and have been using Fedora and Redhat consistently
> for many, many years. It is my personal reference point as to what
> Linux should be and I've been very happy with it.
>
> I'm now using Ubuntu at work for a personal workstation and Redhat
> Enterprise and SuSE among others. Ubuntu is equal to Fedora plus
> slightly easier access to software and settings that make a more
> comfortable personal environment. I'm really enjoying it and I
> appreciate the innovations they've made.
>
> I've always heard about various Linux distributions but have never felt
> they had a compelling reason to leave. Many of us left Slackware way
> back when because Redhat had rpm support and that clearly made the
> distribution better. But without a killer app, I don't see a need to
> try the smaller distributions.
>
> We should all be very thankful that we have so much to choose from and
> can find such rewards in something developed cooperatively and offered
> for free.
>
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