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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Subsentient on Sunday February 22, @01:02AM (2 children)

    by Subsentient (1111) on Sunday February 22, @01:02AM (#1434478) Homepage Journal

    If I can use a different Linux distro, I'd switch from Fedora to Void. If I can't use Linux, probably OpenBSD.

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday February 22, @02:25PM

    by HiThere (866) on Sunday February 22, @02:25PM (#1434519) Journal

    Pretty much that, but ... I don't really know. I currently use Debian, and if no other Linux were feasible...until last year I would have said Apple, but a bit of checking has made me dubious. BSD doesn't really seem to fit my use case, but maybe one of them would work.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday March 03, @08:09PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday March 03, @08:09PM (#1435601)

    I'm on a Win11 box at the moment. I have a work issued Win11 laptop on my left (in the middle of a 45 minute mandatory "upgrade"), and an Ubuntu laptop beside that. Ubuntu and self-managed Win11 aren't all that different, for my UX - the work issued Win11 is an altogether less cooperative beast (what USB?, you aren't allowed to use USB memory sticks! but I filled out the special permission form and had it signed by my manager and it was working last month...)

    My distro of choice, lately, is Debian. Once upon a time, the argument of "you get more recent versions / better selected packages / better configured desktop in Ubuntu" had some merit, no more - for me, at least. Maybe Mint still does this? People who love Mint still seem to love Mint. I'm tired of working through the filters, straight Debian is fine for me, it's what I have been installing on our HTPCs, and the next time I setup a Linux daily driver it will likely be Debian.

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