<div dir="ltr">Recommendation of course being any persons personal recommendation of what distro they like and works best for them ...<div style>I have used redhat, suse, fedora, ubuntu, gentoo, and a few others, and was happy with ubuntu a few of years ago, but when they started experimenting, and</div>
<div style>especially recent with doing the tablet UI thing, I bolted to linux mint, the ubuntu addition, as did a lot of other people bolt off ubuntu to linux mint ,</div><div style>as mint is by far the most popular linux distro. But when ubuntu just got scarier and scarier (and mint is based of ubuntu), and the mint boys crafted that minty goodness into the </div>
<div style>linux mint debian edition, I went to that, and since, haven't looked back. My wife isn't a power linux user, but I even converted her ubuntu 12.x vintage to LMDE</div><div style>at the start of this year and she is loving it. LMDE is great because it takes the most user friendly linux (mint) and pushes that onto a base off of pure debian goodness, to deliver</div>
<div style>unmatched over all perfection = LMDE ... IMHO!. I run monodevelop on it just fine, the latest version, and that is probably the most advanced IDE for linux. Run</div><div style>hdpvr, software raid, opera/firefox/chrome, dev. mono environment, banshee, ..... all works great. Also running a debian distro like LMDE also pays off if you work on servers,</div>
<div style>as ubuntu server is very popular on clouds. </div><div style><br></div><div style>-tl</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Brad Fonseca <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linuxbrad-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">linuxbrad-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
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I'm hoping the folks on this list might be able to help me with a suggestion. I'm looking to move to a new Linux distribution.<br>
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I have been using the Mandriva distribution for a number years since it was called Mandrake and it was in version 8.0. Recently, I have been happily using Mandriva 2011.0 ("Hydrogen"). I just discovered that the home user version of Mandriva (Mandriva Powerpack 20xx) is no longer being supported or updated (my update manager is no longer receiving updates) as it has reached its end of life. In addition, Mandriva has taken the decision to focus on their corporate products and are no longer producing a home version.<br>
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I have determined that there are a couple forks that have started since the Open Mandriva (<a href="http://www.openmandriva.org" target="_blank">http://www.openmandriva.org</a>), which just got started earlier this year, and Mageia (<a href="http://www.mageia.org" target="_blank">http://www.mageia.org</a>), which started in September 2010 and has had two major releases.<br>
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Now that you have the background, I have a few questions that I'm hoping to have answered:<br>
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1. What is this group's opinion of either Open Mandriva or Mageia? Would it make sense to move to one of these distributions seeing as they are forks of a distribution I am very familiar with?<br>
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2. If I wanted to try a new distribution what is the recommendation of this group? I would like a distribution that will be the least troublesome (e.g. stable) and will support the most peripherals. I use Chrome as my browser so I don't expect too much issue there. I'm a hobby coder so having access to a decent set of IDEs would be nice, especially ones supporting Python. I currently use Dr. Python as I like the interface and I'm really just trying to practise things I'm learning in Python currently. Having an IDE that would support other programming languages would be nice too. I'm used to using a "Package Manager" to both update my system and add new applications so I would prefer to use a distribution that provides this feature<br>
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Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. I know the discussion can get quite heated when it comes to favoured distributions. I hoping that the suggestions put forward will take into account my few requirements.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Brad<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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