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Which distro should I use ? - Psycho_Coder - 10-03-2013
Hello HC,
I need some suggestions. Tomorrow I am going to buy a new laptop. I want to ask what distro should I use. I am a linux user now. I don't use windows at all but still I consider myself a beginner. I want to a be GNU/Linux guy and love to follow the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) principle. I am experienced with Ubuntu and fedora. I strongly wish to install Arch Linux but after reading the arch wiki and various instructions, grub, boot etc etc etc I became wacko and fell on the ground. So many things to be done and I haven't done anything like that earlier with fedora or ubuntu. I used terminal to do most of my work but in arch linux everything you have to do it yourself. Arch Linux seems to me as if a flowchart is given and now you have to develop the application to work with it. I am quite scared whether I should install arch linux or not as I have full faith in myself that I am going to mess the things up. I don't understand what to do. Should I install and spare a lot of time over configuring arch linux or should I opt for another diastro maybe fedora or linux mint or ubuntu.
Another thing that I wanted to know is what is a Server OS, believe me I don't have any idea and so I am asking you'll, I could have google'd and I did but didn't quite understood them well. I have seen Windows server 2008 or Ubuntu server or fedora server OS, what are these and how they are useful and where can they be apply or used ?
I am asking this as I want to test it as well (Just for learning and knowing what's different)
Please do help me and if you can then provide some brief explanations.
Thank you.
Which distro should I use ? - Psycho_Coder - 10-03-2013
Hello HC,
I need some suggestions. Tomorrow I am going to buy a new laptop. I want to ask what distro should I use. I am a linux user now. I don't use windows at all but still I consider myself a beginner. I want to a be GNU/Linux guy and love to follow the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) principle. I am experienced with Ubuntu and fedora. I strongly wish to install Arch Linux but after reading the arch wiki and various instructions, grub, boot etc etc etc I became wacko and fell on the ground. So many things to be done and I haven't done anything like that earlier with fedora or ubuntu. I used terminal to do most of my work but in arch linux everything you have to do it yourself. Arch Linux seems to me as if a flowchart is given and now you have to develop the application to work with it. I am quite scared whether I should install arch linux or not as I have full faith in myself that I am going to mess the things up. I don't understand what to do. Should I install and spare a lot of time over configuring arch linux or should I opt for another diastro maybe fedora or linux mint or ubuntu.
Another thing that I wanted to know is what is a Server OS, believe me I don't have any idea and so I am asking you'll, I could have google'd and I did but didn't quite understood them well. I have seen Windows server 2008 or Ubuntu server or fedora server OS, what are these and how they are useful and where can they be apply or used ?
I am asking this as I want to test it as well (Just for learning and knowing what's different)
Please do help me and if you can then provide some brief explanations.
Thank you.
Which distro should I use ? - Psycho_Coder - 10-03-2013
Hello HC,
I need some suggestions. Tomorrow I am going to buy a new laptop. I want to ask what distro should I use. I am a linux user now. I don't use windows at all but still I consider myself a beginner. I want to a be GNU/Linux guy and love to follow the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) principle. I am experienced with Ubuntu and fedora. I strongly wish to install Arch Linux but after reading the arch wiki and various instructions, grub, boot etc etc etc I became wacko and fell on the ground. So many things to be done and I haven't done anything like that earlier with fedora or ubuntu. I used terminal to do most of my work but in arch linux everything you have to do it yourself. Arch Linux seems to me as if a flowchart is given and now you have to develop the application to work with it. I am quite scared whether I should install arch linux or not as I have full faith in myself that I am going to mess the things up. I don't understand what to do. Should I install and spare a lot of time over configuring arch linux or should I opt for another diastro maybe fedora or linux mint or ubuntu.
Another thing that I wanted to know is what is a Server OS, believe me I don't have any idea and so I am asking you'll, I could have google'd and I did but didn't quite understood them well. I have seen Windows server 2008 or Ubuntu server or fedora server OS, what are these and how they are useful and where can they be apply or used ?
I am asking this as I want to test it as well (Just for learning and knowing what's different)
Please do help me and if you can then provide some brief explanations.
Thank you.
RE: Which distro should I use ? - chmod - 10-03-2013
Arch will be good for you as learning experience as it forces you to do pretty much everything manually I don't really use it for reasons of I'm lazy
I remember reading this quote from somewhere (can't remember where) and it makes sense "To mess up a Linux system you have to work at it, but to mess up a windows system all you have to do is work on it" to really fudge things up you need to run things as root so if you need root privileges read the man pages and research things before making changes and you should be fine.As for your other points all those distros are solid choices although I'm not a fan of Ubuntu for the whole Amazon thing.
For the server you'll find most distros do what you want them to do the only real difference between the desktop and server editions is the bundled software, so you can quite easily configure a desktop OS to run a server by installing the required packages and configuring them to your liking (which ones would depend on what you wish to achieve). If up time or security is an issue for you I would avoid Windows servers as you will need to constantly restart after updates etc. (there's a reason hardly anyone uses it for anything)
As for a few more suggestions have a look at Slackware, Debian, openSUSE or some of the many Ubuntu based distros. Or stick with Fedora
RE: Which distro should I use ? - chmod - 10-03-2013
Arch will be good for you as learning experience as it forces you to do pretty much everything manually I don't really use it for reasons of I'm lazy
I remember reading this quote from somewhere (can't remember where) and it makes sense "To mess up a Linux system you have to work at it, but to mess up a windows system all you have to do is work on it" to really fudge things up you need to run things as root so if you need root privileges read the man pages and research things before making changes and you should be fine.As for your other points all those distros are solid choices although I'm not a fan of Ubuntu for the whole Amazon thing.
For the server you'll find most distros do what you want them to do the only real difference between the desktop and server editions is the bundled software, so you can quite easily configure a desktop OS to run a server by installing the required packages and configuring them to your liking (which ones would depend on what you wish to achieve). If up time or security is an issue for you I would avoid Windows servers as you will need to constantly restart after updates etc. (there's a reason hardly anyone uses it for anything)
As for a few more suggestions have a look at Slackware, Debian, openSUSE or some of the many Ubuntu based distros. Or stick with Fedora
RE: Which distro should I use ? - chmod - 10-03-2013
Arch will be good for you as learning experience as it forces you to do pretty much everything manually I don't really use it for reasons of I'm lazy
I remember reading this quote from somewhere (can't remember where) and it makes sense "To mess up a Linux system you have to work at it, but to mess up a windows system all you have to do is work on it" to really fudge things up you need to run things as root so if you need root privileges read the man pages and research things before making changes and you should be fine.As for your other points all those distros are solid choices although I'm not a fan of Ubuntu for the whole Amazon thing.
For the server you'll find most distros do what you want them to do the only real difference between the desktop and server editions is the bundled software, so you can quite easily configure a desktop OS to run a server by installing the required packages and configuring them to your liking (which ones would depend on what you wish to achieve). If up time or security is an issue for you I would avoid Windows servers as you will need to constantly restart after updates etc. (there's a reason hardly anyone uses it for anything)
As for a few more suggestions have a look at Slackware, Debian, openSUSE or some of the many Ubuntu based distros. Or stick with Fedora
RE: Which distro should I use ? - Psycho_Coder - 10-03-2013
(10-03-2013, 09:21 PM)chmod Wrote: Arch will be good for you as learning experience as it forces you to do pretty much everything manually I don't really use it for reasons of I'm lazy
As for your other points all those distros are solid choices although I'm not a fan of Ubuntu for the whole Amazon thing.
For the server you'll find most distros do what you want them to do the only real difference between the desktop and server editions is the bundled software, so you can quite easily configure a desktop OS to run a server by installing the required packages and configuring them to your liking (which ones would depend on what you wish to achieve). If up time or security is an issue for you I would avoid Windows servers as you will need to constantly restart after updates etc. (there's a reason hardly anyone uses it for anything)
As for a few more suggestions have a look at Slackware, Debian, openSUSE or some of the many Ubuntu based distros. Or stick with Fedora
Thanks for your reply. Can you give some details on the Server OS thing, I didn't get that point quite well or if you can give some links or videos.
RE: Which distro should I use ? - Psycho_Coder - 10-03-2013
(10-03-2013, 09:21 PM)chmod Wrote: Arch will be good for you as learning experience as it forces you to do pretty much everything manually I don't really use it for reasons of I'm lazy
As for your other points all those distros are solid choices although I'm not a fan of Ubuntu for the whole Amazon thing.
For the server you'll find most distros do what you want them to do the only real difference between the desktop and server editions is the bundled software, so you can quite easily configure a desktop OS to run a server by installing the required packages and configuring them to your liking (which ones would depend on what you wish to achieve). If up time or security is an issue for you I would avoid Windows servers as you will need to constantly restart after updates etc. (there's a reason hardly anyone uses it for anything)
As for a few more suggestions have a look at Slackware, Debian, openSUSE or some of the many Ubuntu based distros. Or stick with Fedora
Thanks for your reply. Can you give some details on the Server OS thing, I didn't get that point quite well or if you can give some links or videos.
RE: Which distro should I use ? - Psycho_Coder - 10-03-2013
(10-03-2013, 09:21 PM)chmod Wrote: Arch will be good for you as learning experience as it forces you to do pretty much everything manually I don't really use it for reasons of I'm lazy
As for your other points all those distros are solid choices although I'm not a fan of Ubuntu for the whole Amazon thing.
For the server you'll find most distros do what you want them to do the only real difference between the desktop and server editions is the bundled software, so you can quite easily configure a desktop OS to run a server by installing the required packages and configuring them to your liking (which ones would depend on what you wish to achieve). If up time or security is an issue for you I would avoid Windows servers as you will need to constantly restart after updates etc. (there's a reason hardly anyone uses it for anything)
As for a few more suggestions have a look at Slackware, Debian, openSUSE or some of the many Ubuntu based distros. Or stick with Fedora
Thanks for your reply. Can you give some details on the Server OS thing, I didn't get that point quite well or if you can give some links or videos.
RE: Which distro should I use ? - chmod - 10-03-2013
Basically the server versions are just a striped out version of the desktop OS (sometimes with no DE/WM) with things like apache bind sql etc pre-installed all of these things will be available from the repos have a look here for a bit more information, but all in all there is actually very little difference IMO you would be better off with a desktop edition and customizing this to meet your needs for a server (I have done, and still do this), unless of course you plan to run this as a server and nothing else. As for the packages you will need this will depend on the services you require.
Hope this helps