Re: Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro on Fri Jul 26 2019 07:59 pm

 TL> I started with Yggdrasil (back when 1.2.13 was the latest and greatest
 TL> kernel). 
 TL> The version I had was buggy in a few respects, expexially with some of the
 TL> bundled GUI utilities. I switched to Slackware, which I found very solid,
 TL> then went to Red Hat (and its descendents) for many years, before moving
 TL> mainly to Debian and Debian based distros (Mint, Lubuntu, Raspian, etc) in
 TL> more recent years.

Heh yeah. It's funny, for me, I hated Red Hat back then. I actually had
preferred Debian and actually more than that, I preferred SUSE. I think
ultimately what I'm going to end up with is either sticking hard on Fedora,
which I've actually liked since Fedora 18 and up, or with Xubuntu, which I hate
trying to maintain packages for, and do need to for a small few things
(SyncTERM for example)... It really depends. There's a few things I definitely
really must have, and that's reasonably up-to-date browsers, reasonably
up-to-date video driver support, moderate printer support (I currently have a
semi-modern HP printer which requires a minimum version of hpcups to use it,
which was not in Ubuntu 16.04), and some specific programs like zssh. Because,
I like my zmodem over ssh, which I miss with not having konsole from KDE.

Now, I'd mentioned SUSE, but not in current days. openSUSE has let me down way
too much in the later years. With a lot of their dirty little hacks, like their
"Druid" replacement for virt-manager's VM "Wizard", which they only fairly
recently finally removed after all these years. Their default setup for
open-files limit which breaks any modern browser today, and just.... their
reliance on btrfs for things like snapshots and the ability to roll back
changes, stuff that yum and dnf had had without filesystem level snapshots for
years. 

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