[ale] Recommendations for my next distro?

[LnxGnome]

Other than "ease of use" (whole disk at one time) when setting it up and 
installing the OS, I don't remember if I had another reason. I'm 
striping (RAID0, no redundancy), so I don't have to worry about rebuild 
issues.

On 3/1/15 12:41 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> I'm curious - why use fakeraid at all?
> The downsides seem to vastly outweigh any upsides don't they?
> Or am I missing something?
>
>
> On 03/01/2015 12:18 PM, LnxGnome wrote:
>> 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,
>>>
>>>
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