Recommend me a stable, easy distro?

xrapidx said:
I've pretty much had it with the way Windows is going - can't use it anymore, find it fugly and confusing... maybe I'm getting to that age. Latest laptop came with 8.1 - thought 10 would be neater... nope.

I need something with less clutter, but stable enough to allow me to do my daily work. (I need various Windows development environments, mostly BI - so Visual Studio, SQL 2008 - 2016... etc...which I'd most likely have to run in Wine).

Also - a lot of my recent work is moving towards database environments which would probably run better in a Linux environment anyway.
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I'm a big fan of Ubuntu Gnome. Very customisable, very slick. Has some oddities on my notebook, but that's only when using the HDMI connection. Wendel from The Tek has a nice, short overview of it.

Depending on how you're approaching development in the Windows environment, if you don't need GPU pass-thru you can run it entirely in a virtual machine. Here's another video you can watch on that.

Johnatan56 said:
Sorry, misread the article then (was skimming). I am sure you can get Visual Studio to run in linux.
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IIRC, you can target Linux through Visual Studio now. I don't think it's been ported over.
 
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If you are doing windows based development rather run a windows box.

Struggling to get Windows apps to run under wine or whatever is a waste of time in my opinion.
 
Install Gentoo :D

It is as stable as an old woman living in the forest and about as easy as well.
 
Well I haven't read most of the thread but:

I've had Mint, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome and now Kubuntu installed.

Mint was nice but Cinnamon was by far the most boring of the lot. You are running an older version of Ubuntu underneath....meh

Ubuntu Gnome lasted two days. Buggy as fsck. Never felt right

Ubuntu (Unity) lasted quite some time. Became use to it after I de-pinked it...but then I got bored and tried to install kde plasma on top of it. Bricked it.

I almost went back to Mint cinnamon (considered Elementary for a brief moment) but ended up installing Kubuntu... and I'm loving it. By far the prettiest of them all, clean and out if your way.

Only problem I had was it being sluggish at the start. It has a file indexer running in the background. I added my directories to its exclusion lists and it started flying.


When the inevitable happens and I break this install I might consider Fedora. Almost did install it but then I found the file indexing problem. Also not the biggest Gnome 3 fan
 
Hamster said:
Well I haven't read most of the thread but:

I've had Mint, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome and now Kubuntu installed.

Mint was nice but Cinnamon was by far the most boring of the lot. You are running an older version of Ubuntu underneath....meh

Ubuntu Gnome lasted two days. Buggy as fsck. Never felt right

Ubuntu (Unity) lasted quite some time. Became use to it after I de-pinked it...but then I got bored and tried to install kde plasma on top of it. Bricked it.

I almost went back to Mint cinnamon (considered Elementary for a brief moment) but ended up installing Kubuntu... and I'm loving it. By far the prettiest of them all, clean and out if your way.

Only problem I had was it being sluggish at the start. It has a file indexer running in the background. I added my directories to its exclusion lists and it started flying.


When the inevitable happens and I break this install I might consider Fedora. Almost did install it but then I found the file indexing problem. Also not the biggest Gnome 3 fan
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Ubuntu with Mate?

Also, don't put a kde alongside any of the others. it pulls in too many libraries, and you too often get borked systems because of unmet dependencies.
 
pinball wizard said:
Ubuntu with Mate?

Also, don't put a kde alongside any of the others. it pulls in too many libraries, and you too often get borked systems because of unmet dependencies.
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Never tried Mate before...one day
 
I use Peppermint OS. Lightest without sacrificing everything, that I could find.
 
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