O never did distro hopping, so I know just a few ones:
Ancient RedHat, because the first servers I’ve setup were RH 4.2
Debian because after RH stabbed us all in the back for the first time after v.8, that’s what I started using for servers
SUSE (SLES), because that’s what I use with HANA DB installations
Kubuntu, as it was the easier to install and less traumatic when my wife started using our desktop, coming from windows 95, 20+ years ago
I know there are pros and cons in any distro. Don’t waste much time distro hopping. Pick any of the mainstream ones. Install it as your “home base”, then if you want to try others, use live usb images.
Between the maintream ones, it’s a lot about personal preference. I like kubuntu, because I prefer deb over rpm for packages, and coming from windows, kde is less “alien” to get used to.
@jsveiga thanks for the info and sorry if i can’t respond to that massive wall of text
No worries, I’m in recovery of reddit abstinence followed by vlemmy dying, so there is a lot of repressed typing there.
@jsveiga oh neat ill keep what you said all in mind, what distro would you recommend for someone who wants to learn the ropes of Linux.
O never did distro hopping, so I know just a few ones:
Ancient RedHat, because the first servers I’ve setup were RH 4.2
Debian because after RH stabbed us all in the back for the first time after v.8, that’s what I started using for servers
SUSE (SLES), because that’s what I use with HANA DB installations
Kubuntu, as it was the easier to install and less traumatic when my wife started using our desktop, coming from windows 95, 20+ years ago
I know there are pros and cons in any distro. Don’t waste much time distro hopping. Pick any of the mainstream ones. Install it as your “home base”, then if you want to try others, use live usb images.
Between the maintream ones, it’s a lot about personal preference. I like kubuntu, because I prefer deb over rpm for packages, and coming from windows, kde is less “alien” to get used to.