Best Linux 2020

Bin trying MX Linux 19.3 KDE for a few days now.... impressive but still lacking in actual execution.... it's basically the opensuse of debians with a much smaller dev team.

It's upgrading/updating mechanism especially leaves much to be desired..... was exploring the package manager and selecting a few things and..... the right bastid (package manager not OS) simply restarted and got stuck in a upgrade path loop.

The batch of helper MX apps are ok but lacks proper functionality.

Oddly samba started off working PERFECTLY.... and then for no reason simply simply stopped opening any shares unless directly went to them via address bar, likely a file manager bug of some kind.

For all it's faults..... LM is still the best most convenient option out there..... pity it does not do KDE any more though. Adding KDE after the fact just confuses the OS being as it's optimised for a specific DE..... now if only someone wakes the fk up and realizes that different DE's need to somehow be installed isolated from one another instead of sharing the exact same app pool that leads to jarring bugs and destabalization..... or that might just be KDE being a freak amoung normies.
 
SauRoNZA said:
You can’t go wrong with one of the official Ubuntu derivatives.

Especially with built in Snap system giving you more application support as a whole.

Sure you can install Snap on anything else, but I prefer things baked in.

Also can’t beat it for general support and documentation.

As a MacOS guy I quite prefer Ubuntu Budgie.

Don’t chase after the prettiest one, chase after the most functional and well supported ones.
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Give this man a bells!
 
John_Phoenix said:
New pc for work? Arch / Manjaro
Old pc for daily whatever? Ubuntu Budgie / Elementary

Design? MacOS

I refuse to install Deepin, it's the linux equivalent of hiring Mata Hari and giving her access to your gun safe.
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I tried Manjaro on my workstation last year. On the whole I liked it, but:

Getting Nvidia drivers to work was a moderate pain. Getting them to work again after a kernel update was too much, I had work to do, so I gave up and installed Ubuntu.
 
Just installed Deepin.
Looks good thus far, will play around with it this evening. Only worry is that the default set language on install (where you choose installation language) in Kunfu letters
 
Binary Bark said:
Just installed Deepin.
Looks good thus far, will play around with it this evening. Only worry is that the default set language on install (where you choose installation language) in Kunfu letters
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Deepin is the one sponsored by the Chinese. I would avoid it, personally.
 
newby_investor said:
I tried Manjaro on my workstation last year. On the whole I liked it, but:

Getting Nvidia drivers to work was a moderate pain. Getting them to work again after a kernel update was too much, I had work to do, so I gave up and installed Ubuntu.
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Pop!_OS has one for you, an NVidia specific one. Gaming ready with Steam and Lutris pre-installed. And it's Ubuntu based, right up your alley.

Manjaro Xfce works great for me, but I'm a AMD fan boy, so no issues for me.
 
beans100 said:
Pop!_OS has one for you, an NVidia specific one. Gaming ready with Steam and Lutris pre-installed. And it's Ubuntu based, right up your alley.

Manjaro Xfce works great for me, but I'm a AMD fan boy, so no issues for me.
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Garuda Xfce has a NVidia boot option
 
beans100 said:
Pop!_OS has one for you, an NVidia specific one. Gaming ready with Steam and Lutris pre-installed. And it's Ubuntu based, right up your alley.

Manjaro Xfce works great for me, but I'm a AMD fan boy, so no issues for me.
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I don't have any particular sentimental or philosophical attachment to Ubuntu. It just works, so I install it and get on with things.

I'm too old to play around with all this other stuff, I have actual things to do.

(Gaming has nothing to do with my use case, I needed to use CUDA.)
 
If I want to use Linux, then I want to use Linux.

If I want to use Windows. Same thing.
I've still got DDE in dual boot on my laptop. I do love Linux as a predominat experience. Windows is my home however.

Let the good times roll.
Just keep swimming ;)
 
Installing Debian again for the first time in many years. My old mistress. I used to love her. Let's see if I still do.

By the way, anyone set up pfSense for router purposes before? After the Debian experiment, I'm going to see if I can turn the box into a router.

Never tried it before. Is it a relatively simple procedure or not quite?
 
netstrider said:
Installing Debian again for the first time in many years. My old mistress. I used to love her. Let's see if I still do.

By the way, anyone set up pfSense for router purposes before? After the Debian experiment, I'm going to see if I can turn the box into a router.

Never tried it before. Is it a relatively simple procedure or not quite?
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Nevermind, got it working.
 
I enjoy Bodhi, but I want to now create a bootable USB on Bodhi but cant find a way to do it, UNetbootin is not available.
 
NVM Found this

Code: 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unetbootin
 
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