[ale] Recommendations for my next distro?

[Jim Kinney]

Centos 7 desktop is different beast from centos 6. You really do have to
add the epel, elrepo and li.nux.ro desktop repos to get a really good
desktop environment. I have several running on older iMac hardware in my
student lab. The kids whine for windows desktops but I only provide  Linux
because the computational cluster runs Linux.
On Mar 1, 2015 12:27 PM, "LnxGnome" <lnxgnome at hopnet.net> 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,
>
>
>  Edward
>
>
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