[ale] Recommendations for my next distro?

[LnxGnome]

Hi Edward,

I recently changed distros for my desktop.  I'm now using Fedora 21 
(Gnome).  It's really my first time using Fedora for an extended period, 
and I'm liking it pretty well.

I had been using OpenSuSE for many years (14ish).  I tried updating from 
12.3 to 13.2, and wound up with an unbootable system, due to a) using 
fakeraid/striping for my boot disks, and b) bugs related to that in the 
init that prevents it from mounting /.  I might try 13.3 again when it 
comes out, but 13.2 is DOA as far as I'm concerned.

Before moving to Fedora, I tried Ubuntu's last Desktop LTS and the 
latest Linux Mint.  Both have problems similar to OpenSuSE (but not 
identical) with fakeraid/striping.  However, they will fail to mount / 
even when installed on a standalone disk, if a striped/fakeraid disk set 
exists on the system.  That's fubar.

So, next was CentOS7.  It just isn't ready for prime-time as a desktop 
OS yet (compared to CentOS6 or OpenSuSE).

That left me looking at Slackware and Fedora.  I picked Fedora for "ease 
of use" (with many memories of installing Slackware from a stack of 23 
floppy disks....), and almost three weeks later, I'm still using it.

Disclaimer: for the past year, my other desktop has been a mac with OS X 
10 (code named "redundant").  I have CentOS 6 on most of my servers, 
with a couple running Oracle EL6 and OVM3.

--LnxGnome


On 2/28/15 7:19 PM, Edward James Monson, II wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I've been using various flavors of Ubuntu for about 5 years, and I'm 
> ready to try something new. I'm fairly comfortable with the command 
> line. I'm curious what distributions people on this list use, and how 
> they rate in difficulty compared to Ubuntu. I'd also prefer to use 
> something a lot of other people use so I have more people I can run to 
> for help. :)
>
>
> Thanks, and nice to meet you,
>
>
> Edward
>
>
>
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