Recommended Linux Distribution for Current Mandriva 2011.0 User

[Paul Tarvydas]

I used Mandrake/Mandriva for many years, as a "safe" replacement for 
Windoze.  A desktop for S/W development.

I dumped Mandriva over a year ago.  I just couldn't handle the 
continuous drama and lack of business acumen.

I didn't find another KDE distro that looked serious.

Tried Debian and Ubuntu.  Coming from a Mandriva mindset, they were 
utterly horrible.  Just about everything was missing, wrt to a 
reasonable desktop environment.

I'm now running Linux Mint (Cinnamon).  Thunderbird & Firefox (& 
sometimes Chrome).  It's quite usable (as a desktop replacement), has 
most of the stuff I want out of the box.  A little less thrilling that 
Mandriva (but Mandriva is dead to me).  (Ubuntu is Debian, Mint is 
Ubuntu with lots of stuff pre-installed).  Kmail uses a different (more 
complex) format for mail than Thunderbird. Emacs + notmuch can recover 
and search the Kmail formatted stuff.

I had to learn about "apt-get", but it wasn't all that hard.

Apparently, it is "good enough", because I haven't searched for another 
distro for almost a year.

I will be most interested in your research for a suitable replacement...

pt

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