Datamation examines the Debian and Ubuntu distros in detail by starting with the question, what is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu? Neither GNU/Linux distro has been out of Distrowatch's top six since 2005, and for the last four years neither has been out of the top three. There are good reasons for that. Though if systemd is not your cup of tea, there is also a Debian fork, Devuan, which is basically Debian GNU/Linux minus systemd.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday July 16 2017, @08:16PM (1 child)
Mandrake was probably the first distro to "just work".
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Monday July 17 2017, @02:44AM
Back when we were still installing from CDs, that was indeed my experience -- Mandrake 7.x was the first one I tried where most stuff Just Worked, or at least it did better at it than any other distro I'd tried (of dozens, starting in 1998).
Funny thing, when I've had distro-testing spasms since then... the ones that work best out of the box (and suit me best) always seem to be Mandrake descendants.
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