[GTALUG] From Slackware to which distro?

[Anthony de Boer]

On 2022-04-27 12:37 a.m., William Park via talk 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.


It can make a lot of sense to run the same at home that you use at work, 
so that you're only tracking one distro's quirks and issues, and being 
that much more effective at work and needing that much less time spent 
debugging issues at home.

I was running Red Hat back when a past job was on that, up until Red Hat 
jumped the shark, then CentOS during a couple of gigs that used that, 
then I decided it was time to dig into Debian just months before a job 
that used that came over the horizon. So now most of my boxes run Debian.

Meanwhile I picked up Gentoo back around the time RH was bothering me 
too much to touch on my own time anymore, partly as a technical 
challenge to myself and partly to have the actual source code to 
everything actually downloaded, but that can suck up an awful lot of 
time even as it hones your sysadmin skills!

Anthony