[GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?
o1bigtenor
o1bigtenor at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 06:33:23 EDT 2022
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:37 PM William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've been running Slackware since forever. It's time to grow up and see
> the world. Which distro would you recommend that I move to? Yes, I
> know it's personal, and reasons will be varied and educational.
>
> - Ubuntu -- OK. I use it at work in VM and in WSL (Windows Subsystem
> for Linux). For me, Mint is another flavour, just like Kubuntu,
> Xubuntu, etc.
>
> - Oracle -- I use it at work too. Was CentOS, but switched to Oracle
> because they said delivering end-of-life OS is bad marketing.
>
> - Fedora -- OK. Doesn't seem to have its equivalent in Ubuntu side.
>
> - OpenSUSE -- Difficult to pin down. It uses RPM but in their own way.
> It has rolling release (Tumbleweed) and versioned release (Leap).
>
> - Arch -- no. I don't need/want to learn what they are trying to teach.
> I run Slackware, so I already know all that.
>
>
Suggest Devuan - - - I'm working on moving more of my systems that way
over time.
Regards
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