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Favorite Linux distro
« on: May 25, 2011, 06:43:52 am »
I am trying to figure out what linux distros I like best so I wan to know whats most popular so I can try them out. I also think it would be good to see what the popular distrobutions in a community like this are. I know ubuntu and mint are nearly the same thing(imo mint is better)

I voted linux mint because so far thats all I've used
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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2011, 07:00:19 am »
I voted ubuntu for a few reasons
1. it's the most popular
2. it's the only one i've used
3. it's one of the most userfriendly
4. lots of support (because it's the most popular)

I heard linux mint is very user-friendly too

2nd most popular is fedora, 3rd openSUSE
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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2011, 07:02:39 am »
Actually according to distrowatch:
1st Ubuntu
2nd Mint
3rd Debian
4th Fedora
5th OpenSuse

Linux mint is friendly an d has a good support IRC channel
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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2011, 07:04:06 am »
meh i dunno. probably the ones i quote were from a few years ago, u might be right.
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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2011, 07:05:00 am »
thats by Page views though. It might be different based on downloads
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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2011, 07:06:53 am »
I shall have to check tomorrow for the most popular because i'd better go to sleep now. Bye!
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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2011, 09:31:40 am »
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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2011, 09:34:52 am »
Mint is what I use and it's my favourite, never forget it's just like Ubuntu.

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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2011, 09:58:15 am »
Fedora for me!

Here's why:

-I found it very easy to pick up without ever using Linux before: it has useful GUI tools to do simple tasks but doesn't limit your ability to do anything using a terminal.
-I like it's package management system (yum, specificially, built on top of rpm) to be much easier to use and much more powerful than apt-get, which I have actually used (on Knoppix, which is a mobile version of Debian). That's just my opinion, obviously.



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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2011, 01:02:09 pm »
Arch all the way for me. If you're enough advanced in the usage of one of the more friendly distros (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora) and you want some challenge, Arch Linux is for you. When installing it, you start with the bare minimum, then you only have to add the packages you want, resulting in a distro tweaked and customized as you wish. Also, Arch is a rolling release, meaning you always have the most recent packages when they get released, you don't have to wait for, say, Ubuntu's next release to get a package's next version. And the package manager, conveniently named Pacman, is simple but powerful to use and you have access to an user-contributed repository, AUR, though a 3rd-party wrapper to Pacman.

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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2011, 04:33:26 am »
I heard that recent versions of Ubuntu weren't as great. I wonder if it's true and if so, then why?

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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2011, 06:49:34 am »
Its probably the last version of Ubuntu that people don't like. Ubuntu 11.04 switched to another shell, which makes that the look is totally different, and many people don't like this. Also, the new shell isn't fully finished, and lacks some features that were in the old one. However, many people tend to forget that you can very easily switch back to the old shell, with just 2 clicks when logging in.

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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2011, 08:04:26 am »
I heard that recent versions of Ubuntu weren't as great. I wonder if it's true and if so, then why?
I heard it also had a whole lot of bugs. Good thing Mint 11 is coming out soon. supposed to be out before June I was told
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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2011, 09:18:29 am »
Supposed to be released by the end of this Month (somewhen during the next week).

And yes Ubuntu 11 is quite buggy.

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Re: Favorite Linux distro
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2011, 03:41:04 pm »
I can't even get ubuntu 11 to boot from the CD, actually.