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If you have gained some Linux skills after using Ubuntu for some time, you may try switching to these distributions to explore the world of Linux distributions further.
Ubuntu is one of the best Linux distributions for beginners. It's an excellent platform for people new to Linux. It is easy to install, has tons of free resources available along with a massive list of applications available for it. https://itsfoss.com/distribution-after-ubuntu/
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Discussion: Which Linux Distribution to Use After Ubuntu?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ingar on Saturday March 24 2018, @09:41AM (12 children)
Fiddling with distros used to be kinda fun, but at some point I decided I'd rather be using my computer than to be tinkering with the operating system.
I've settled on Arch Linux, it's fast and lean, and breaks just enough to keep you on your toes. The Debian-side of the linux spectrum suffers
from a holier-than-thou syndrome where things are done the Debian-way rather than the Linux-way. Gentoo is mostly a waste of time:
the performance gains are negligible and I don't have the time to grow coffee beans while it is installing the latest version of the gimp.
If you want to learn about linux system building, you're better off running Linux From Scratch. You'll end up with the most awesome
system ever, but it is an utter bitch to maintain.
Fedora you say? Poettering works for Red Hat.
Distro wars are so much fun.
(Please verify your sarcasm-detector has been properly configured)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 24 2018, @09:43AM (1 child)
Which Linux distro has the best sarcasm detector?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Ingar on Saturday March 24 2018, @10:31AM
I'd guess Android, all your sarcasm would be carefully analysed by Google.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday March 24 2018, @01:38PM (6 children)
This is how I feel. Been using Lubuntu and that remains my goto distro, but I don't like systemd. So I'm still exploring.
Most recently, I've been trying PCLinuxOS. Some minor differences is that man wasn't installed by default, one vim setting, paste/nopaste, was the opposite of the default in Lubuntu, and ls puts quote marks around file names with spaces. Of course the window manager is a little different. PCLinuxOS simply doesn't have the depth of software packages available. Sure, can still download source code and install whatever you want that way, and I have. It's not as convenient, but on the other hand, you don't have to worry about the distro's package management system screwing it up. I locked Lubuntu to an older version of a meta package (mono, if you want to know) and it worked for a while but at some point, Lubuntu upgraded the package anyway which broke the software that depends on it.
Tried Gentoo, and yeah, too much time sunk into compiling. Was using Arch, but they moved to systemd.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 24 2018, @02:22PM (3 children)
Try Void? The install is basically painless, even compared to Arch, and the package manager XBPS looks and acts a lot like Pacman. I was using Arch for a long time too, and then tried Void on a friend's suggestion. It's awesome, almost like FreeBSD and Arch had a baby.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @07:56AM
while FreeBSD and Arch Linux fuck.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday March 25 2018, @01:31PM
Never heard of Void before. I checked on Distrowatch and saw it's just outside the top 100. If it's free of systemd, maybe I will give it a shot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @09:29AM
while FreeBSD and Arch Linux fuck.
(Score: 2, Informative) by DECbot on Saturday March 24 2018, @02:47PM
If you like the debian feel, you can give Devuan a try. It's Debian without systemd and what I jumped to for my desktop machines after Xubuntu.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday March 25 2018, @03:36AM
After 20 years of poking at distros and finding them wanting as desktops... PCLinuxOS (Trinity and KDE) is the only one I've kept, and so far it's behaving itself, and hasn't annoyed me too much. Still not used for everyday but at least it doesn't give me hives, like Ubuntu, or fall over, like Mint.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by tonyPick on Saturday March 24 2018, @04:16PM
Same here - at the moment I've wound up using Devuan as the main machine (I'd used Debian for years, and sort of got used to it), and for when I absolutely *had* to use something with the very-latest-rebuild-everything dependency I've been dropping Mint "18.the.latest.xfce.version" onto virtual machines and running that as an isolated slave "Build, Run, Test and Nuke" environment, where the various systemd-esque & cutting edge "can't start up"/"can't shut down"/"wacky networking changes"/security problems etc. etc.are not so much of an issue when I can freeze, wipe and restore to defaults from clean trivially...
Tried a couple of moves over to BSD, and it's OK to play with, but I never seem to have the time to get comfortable with it the way I do with Linux & apt, and the systems I use in the day job are solidly Linux-centric.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday March 24 2018, @04:50PM (1 child)
I don't know if it's an Arch thing or a Vim thing, but lately Vim defaults to something called VIsual mode that tries to integrate mouse and totally CoC-blocks mouse selections and middle-click paste for its own internal buffer.
That's probably why they let the D in. Awhile back, I was watching a talk where one of the systemd devs was fellating himself over how much better systemd-nspawn was than other container solutions (repeating something like "docker wishes they were nspawn").
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 24 2018, @08:09PM
Like you, I haven't been arsed yet to track down who is at fault for Vi/Vim's recent stupid mouse-click behavior.
However, holding down SHIFT (possibly just right-shift) before starting a mouse action in Vi/Vim will produce the expected results for both copying and pasting.