Recommended Linux Distribution for Current Mandriva 2011.0 User

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Paul Tarvydas <paultarvydas-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> 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 sorry, I just have to ask...what was missing? I used Debian for years
and I can't remember ever missing anything. Do you mean Flash or something?


>
> 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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