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On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:59:19 +0100 bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > have a look at Ubuntu. > > Don't bother, it's increasingly terrible these days. > > Especially if you're coming from the RPM ecosystem of SUSE anyway, > Fedora might be a better choice (yum and now dnf are much, much nicer > than zypper). Overall Fedora probably isn't different enough from SUSE > to be worth you investing time in investigating the switch - Arch or > even something like Void however might well be. > > The first free day I get is going to be dedicated to wiping Ubuntu, > which has been my usual main OS on/off - mostly on - since Dapper from > my workstation and switching to any Linux distro that sucks less. So > basically, anything. And that's even though a lot of my custom build > stuff, scripting and personal tweaking is all extensively geared > around the Ubuntu platform and will need plenty of work to move > across: it will be totally worth it. > > I'd love to stick with an apt-based Linux if possible, but Debian is > now also systemd-laden and the packages are hopelessly out-of-date > unless you run Sid, which I have done many times before and really > liked until it inevitably broke catastrophically. Not a fit for my > main workstation sadly. > > Realistically, I think it'll probably be Arch replacing it when push > comes to shove. > > Cheers > Interesting. I started using Linux many years ago with some RPM systems, mainly Mandrake/Mandriva and Suse. Then I moved over to KDE and I have been with an apt-get system since. Nowadays I use Xubuntu, mainly because I like Xfce. Please let us know how it all goes and which distro you finally end up with. I have had Arch suggested to me on several occasions, but it looks like a lot of work. At the moment I have just the one laptop myself, although I look after laptops for my wife and my daughter, also set up with Xfce. So it wouldn't be as much work as you seem to be facing. Thanks Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq