(01-16-2017, 09:48 PM)Skullmeat Wrote: Debian works, mostly. The problem is my usb wifi card refuses to connect. It shows the SSIDs, but when I try to connect to one it sits at the state "connecting" forever and wont do anything. It's worth noting that the Acess point has had issues on windows as well.

(01-16-2017, 03:36 AM)Axi Wrote: Here's some of my personal opinions.

Some distros I've wanted to try/look at, and look okay:
-Elementary OS

(01-18-2017, 05:07 AM)Ender Wrote: Straight out, don't use anything Ubuntu based.
Debian is OK. But I've had issues with it.

My personal favorites:
- Arch
- Antergos Core/Base
- OpenSUSE

For WMs/DMs:
- XFCE
- Awesome
- Gnome3
- Cinnamon

Stuff that looks cool:
- Slackware
- LFS (also known as kms :b)
- OpenBSD (BSD, not linux)
- FreeBSD
- OpenIndiana (fork of Solaris)
- Budgie

Wall Of Shame: A.K.A Stuff that I don't like:
- Ubuntu and all derivatives
- KDE
- Gnome-Classic or fallback or whatever, just use XFCE or Mate
- Fedora and all derivatives.
- Mac OSX (duh)
- Windoze (kill me)
- ReactOS (Another windoze???)

Good luck figuring out what you are going to use!

(01-21-2017, 10:37 AM)BORW3 Wrote:

(01-18-2017, 05:07 AM)Ender Wrote: Straight out, don't use anything Ubuntu based.
Debian is OK. But I've had issues with it.

My personal favorites:
- Arch
   - Antergos Core/Base
- OpenSUSE

For WMs/DMs:
- XFCE
- Awesome
- Gnome3
- Cinnamon

Stuff that looks cool:
- Slackware
- LFS (also known as kms :b)
- OpenBSD (BSD, not linux)
- FreeBSD
- OpenIndiana (fork of Solaris)
- Budgie

Wall Of Shame: A.K.A Stuff that I don't like:
- Ubuntu and all derivatives
- KDE
- Gnome-Classic or fallback or whatever, just use XFCE or Mate
- Fedora and all derivatives.
- Mac OSX (duh)
- Windoze (kill me)
- ReactOS (Another windoze???)

Good luck figuring out what you are going to use!

Why do you say Ubuntu based distros are shit?

(01-22-2017, 06:06 PM)DiamondFox Wrote: Hi BORW3,

Why you don't wanna use Debian based distro's?

(01-22-2017, 06:13 PM)DiamondFox Wrote: I would recommended xubuntu, because its stable and most drivers are included.
On me laptop I use it now for circa. tree years and its still stable and fast. I have customize it a little because the Desktop environment I don't like.
I have installed Cinnamon as desktop environment, because it has so many tools and shortcuts.

king regards

DiamondFox

Quote:Every single suggestion that plain suggests a distribution is flawed in a very simple way.

Each distribution is different from another. It depends on the user which distribution he should use as there are way too many out there for anyone to have a slightest clue on what you want in your distribution. There is a reason most users go on a so called distro hopping. That is, you go from one distribution to another until you find what fits you.. Took me a several years until I finally settled down and kept using the same operating system. (FreeBSD)

There are way too many questions that you will need to decide on your own. For example of several ones are

1. Source based vs Binary based ?
   
2. Specific DE or a specific WM ?
   
3. Bare Boned maybe ?
   
4. Stable or bleeding edge ?
   
5. What package manager ? (This one keeps me away from several distributions, RPM, DEB, Pacman, Zypper, Portage, and some others)
   
6. What kind of support do you need ? Do you rely on the community and support ?
   
7. Do you need a specific kernel ? (Some use older version that are still supported but don't have the latest features.. Slack is for example using the oldest LTS version of the kernel)
   
8. I can go on for a while here if I had the time..
   

Then you have the issues of each distribution being configured differently by the developers. They package different versions of the same application due to dependency issues they need to resolve or don't update them to maintain stability. You have literally thousands of changes per distribution. Even between the most similar distributions like Manjaro and Arch, Debian and Mint or Mint and Ubuntu. Those changes effect the user in ways they don't even recognize at first glance and we the people who suggest them don't have any problems with which you might. It wouldn't make any sense to list all of those changes between distributions up for you as it would take you shorter time to try them all instead of us writing the differences between distributions that might effect your user experience.

Then there is quite simply the matter of preference. You might really like Ubuntu and if you do, keep using it. I personally hate it and have my personal reasons to do so and will keep doing so but that shouldn't keep you away from using it if it suits you. There are other distributions as well out there that people either don't know about and haven't used. It is very unlikely that you will get a response here from an experienced user telling you straight down what distribution is the best one, because there isn't one and no one here has tried them all. For example of distributions that might suit you but haven't yet been mentioned are Crux, OpenSuSE, Parsix, Alpine, Fedora, Mageia and more.

And yes, I hate this question more than anything that you could possibly imagine.