Best Linux Distribution (linuxjournal.com)

Linux Journal: We started things off with Best Linux Distribution, and nearly 10,000 readers voted. The winner was Debian, with many commenting "As for servers, Debian is still the best" or similar. One to watch that is rising in the polls is Manjaro (7 percent), which is independently based on the Arch Linux. Manjaro is a favorite for Linux newcomers and is known for its user-friendliness and accessibility. And, now for the top three LJ winners: Debian (33 percent), openSUSE (12 percent), and Fedora (11 percent).

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Used slackware for 8+ years...and then Mint

[MindPrison]

...After Mint I never looked back.

Windows 10 gives me hurdles of issues.

Mint Linux? Works, and works - and works. Love it.

Re:Used slackware for 8+ years...and then Mint

[Frederic54]

Same, started with Mint 13 or something, now at 17.3 with Xfce, I like it, it just works, everything works, nvidia GPU, wifi, BT, sound, etc

Re:Used slackware for 8+ years...and then Mint

[MindPrison]

Windows 10 isn't so bad actually.

But the thing is - Mint never let me down. I use Win 10 at work, and I even have a win 10 partition on a separate drive...which does get bluescreened once in a blue moon, but Mint? Never happens. I can turn Mint on every night, and it never fails me - ever!

I'm a pragmatic person at my age now, I'm in my 50's. I remember my days compiling Slack to my preferences, and not to forget ...lazing off with Mandrake and Red Hat linux, ah - those where the days. But Mint (Ubuntu essentially) has won me over, because I'm now too old for "shit that don't work". I just wanna come home, be comfortable, watch my shitty netflix series, play my steam games...and surf my silly youtube videos and whatnot...Arduino comes to mind (yes I use that....semi daily)

The thing is - Mint made everything work out of the box, no permission shit, no endless nerding around like I was 20 again... ...And still - it works SOOOO much better than any windows OS I remember messing around with for the last 25+ years.

Thanks Mint + Ubuntu + Linux people for your tireless efforts, you truly are the kings amongst men.

Re:Alpine

[Stormy Dragon]

systemd moves various services that were previously provided by applications instead of the OS into the OS itself. This has various advantages and disadvantages vs. more traditional unix OS design.

In addition to people who don't like it for rational reasons, there is also a bunch of more militant OSS types are convinced this is part of a giant "flouride is turning us into commies" style global conspiracy, which is where most of the constant arguing comes from.

Re:Alpine

[mark-t]

http://without-systemd.org/wik...">Too many reasons.

Re:Best for what?

[dmbasso]

I helped my mother (74 years old at the time) install Debian in her new computer, through a voice-only call. I was surprised how easy it is to do it nowadays.