What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

Bluecube said:
That's a near 20 year old OS. I wouldn't have such an old OS anywhere near my hardware! Shove it in a VM!
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That's a good shout but the whole point was get a feel of how it responds on bare metal

Anyway experiment done.

Did like ubuntu 25, especially liked some of the easy to get to power mode settings in the toolbar

The one thing that has been a constant disappointment over the past 20+ years is the scrolling and the touchpad motion never got used to it even when using it daily. It's the same even when linux is booted on a macbook pro :confused:
Pity really as if it were not for this I would be back to using linux desktop as my daily driver. Overall an LDE is much quicker and more efficient than windows - pity really

Tails OS I'll definitely keep for when I need it, especially like that it randomises your MAC at boot up
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Boo ! Ubuntu 6.06 doesn't have UEFI support and I didn't want to completely bust secure boot on my laptop (no option to simply disable it through the bios just an option to remove keys which I wasn't keen on doing)

On the plus side

Tails OS worked and is slick but the promise of 'all traffic' being routed through tor is a lie .... It's only true if you use the tor browser, even then dnsleaktest tells me that the DNS server being used is cloudflare, I guess that is what the exit node is configured as

Will try the others
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Blast from the past, 6.06 was my first ever Linux install. I miss the old Gnome 2.0.
 
Users choosing rolling/blazing new distros based on rolling distros - it's a bit of a recipe for disaster really. I get it people want shiny. I'm still primarily on Debian and rock solid stable, but playing a bit with Fedora too with my new build, but gonna be back to Debian land soon.
 
You pays your money and makes your choice.

Everything has it's place. As long as you understand what you're getting into and mitigate accordingly (backup, backup, backup :) ), or choose a more stable flavour to start with (but still backup, backup, backup) because you will break it. :)

My concern is people will look at the new shiny bleeding edge stuff and the first time it ****s itself will be put off and never come back.
 
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Just wondering what the views were on cachyos? I've had a couple of people suggest it to me as a good performance option that isn't too fiddly to install and maintain.
 
Mercurial said:
You pays your money and makes your choice.

Everything has it's place. As long as you understand what you're getting into and mitigate accordingly (backup, backup, backup :) ), or choose a more stable flavour to start with (but still backup, backup, backup) because you will break it. :)

My concern is people will look at the new shiny bleeding edge stuff and the first time it ****s itself will be put off and never come back.
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I feel much more confident now with snapshots enabled in cachyos. Any updates or package installs triggers a snapshot and on boot I can just choose to go back in time. Its no replacement for backups but should be harder to properly break :D.
 
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