I would like to share my experience with you. I am a computer scientist by profession and a GNU / Linux user for I think 7 years or so. In my house all the equipment goes with this OS. Besides being wonderful and versatile, I feel identified with its social philosophy and principles. During these years I have gone through many distributions (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Mandriva, Fedora, Open SUSE, Arch, Puppy and Debian) and many different desktops (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, MATE) always looking for the most optimal distribution, with which I felt more comfortable and gave me better performance and benefits. I have gone from one to another several times, sometimes disenchanted with one version, other times attracted by the news of another, and in the end after all this journey, I have reached my personal conclusion, the distro with which I have definitely stayed . This is DEBIAN (Testing). Why? For several reasons, all important to me:
1. It is very stable (Testing is more stable than Ubuntu for example, much more) 2. It is Rolling-Release (Testing). This means that it is versionless, but is constantly updated (like Arch). One of the things I don't like about most distributions is having to change version every 6 months, with the problems that appear many times when doing dist-upgrades. 3. His social commitment to free software is serious, rigorous and known. 4. There is no company behind making decisions. It is created internationally by a community of independent programmers. 5. It is one of the largest communities around GNU / Linux. 6. It is one of the first distributions to appear, and it is more alive than ever. Many others like Ubuntu are derivatives of Debian (It will be for a reason). 7. Use .deb packages (.debian, that's where they come from) and use Synaptic, for me the best GNU / Linux package manager.
Maybe he will leave me something else, but in essence these are the reasons. I only see 3 things in which he is less prepared than the rest:
1. The stable version has too old versions, that's why I recommend Testing. 2. It has a graphical installer like the others, although it is not as beautiful or as Next, Next, but in my opinion it is very clear and quite simple to use. 3. It does not come with the whole kit of programs, plugins, office suites, etc. It installs a basic system with a desktop and you install what you want. For me this is good since others like Ubuntu come overloaded with things to do that are slow. With Debian you install only the programs you want and the OS runs much faster and smoother.
If you have questions I will answer them as soon as possible.
Well Gnome3 + Gnome Shell is going to be a shock for you, personally I find the visual and intuitive approach it has great, although it is true that not everyone is prepared to minimize the concept of "minimize" in their mind. Like Chakra Linux with its KDE 4.9, superb and extremely powerful!
The good thing about Debian is that, after installing the corresponding packages, you choose at startup which environment you want to work with, Gnome 3, Gnome2, KDE ... and as far as your imagination goes.
Now as you pointed out before, for older people, better Gnome2 or debian / KDE, or K / Ubuntu, an LTS of course and if you hurry a LinuxMint. Too much modernity and visual effect stuns them.
1-Ubuntu 12.04.1 2-Fedora 17 3-Bodhi Linux 4-mint 5-open Suse That is my list, although many people do not like Ubuntu 12.04.1, it is the best OS that exists or at least for me, then the rest that I put will follow, greetings
Hello everyone.
I would like to share my experience with you. I am a computer scientist by profession and a GNU / Linux user for I think 7 years or so. In my house all the equipment goes with this OS. Besides being wonderful and versatile, I feel identified with its social philosophy and principles. During these years I have gone through many distributions (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Mandriva, Fedora, Open SUSE, Arch, Puppy and Debian) and many different desktops (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, MATE) always looking for the most optimal distribution, with which I felt more comfortable and gave me better performance and benefits. I have gone from one to another several times, sometimes disenchanted with one version, other times attracted by the news of another, and in the end after all this journey, I have reached my personal conclusion, the distro with which I have definitely stayed . This is DEBIAN (Testing). Why? For several reasons, all important to me:
1. It is very stable (Testing is more stable than Ubuntu for example, much more)
2. It is Rolling-Release (Testing). This means that it is versionless, but is constantly updated (like Arch). One of the things I don't like about most distributions is having to change version every 6 months, with the problems that appear many times when doing dist-upgrades.
3. His social commitment to free software is serious, rigorous and known.
4. There is no company behind making decisions. It is created internationally by a community of independent programmers.
5. It is one of the largest communities around GNU / Linux.
6. It is one of the first distributions to appear, and it is more alive than ever. Many others like Ubuntu are derivatives of Debian (It will be for a reason).
7. Use .deb packages (.debian, that's where they come from) and use Synaptic, for me the best GNU / Linux package manager.
Maybe he will leave me something else, but in essence these are the reasons. I only see 3 things in which he is less prepared than the rest:
1. The stable version has too old versions, that's why I recommend Testing.
2. It has a graphical installer like the others, although it is not as beautiful or as Next, Next, but in my opinion it is very clear and quite simple to use.
3. It does not come with the whole kit of programs, plugins, office suites, etc. It installs a basic system with a desktop and you install what you want. For me this is good since others like Ubuntu come overloaded with things to do that are slow. With Debian you install only the programs you want and the OS runs much faster and smoother.
If you have questions I will answer them as soon as possible.
A greeting!
Well Gnome3 + Gnome Shell is going to be a shock for you, personally I find the visual and intuitive approach it has great, although it is true that not everyone is prepared to minimize the concept of "minimize" in their mind. Like Chakra Linux with its KDE 4.9, superb and extremely powerful!
The good thing about Debian is that, after installing the corresponding packages, you choose at startup which environment you want to work with, Gnome 3, Gnome2, KDE ... and as far as your imagination goes.
Now as you pointed out before, for older people, better Gnome2 or debian / KDE, or K / Ubuntu, an LTS of course and if you hurry a LinuxMint. Too much modernity and visual effect stuns them.
1-Ubuntu 12.04.1
2-Fedora 17
3-Bodhi Linux
4-mint
5-open Suse
That is my list, although many people do not like Ubuntu 12.04.1, it is the best OS that exists or at least for me, then the rest that I put will follow, greetings