<div dir="ltr">- I find myself programming, listening to music (Spotify), watching Netflix, web browsing. Whatever I end up with should support chromium.<div>- I would consider myself a minimalist, though I'm not sure how that ties into vi vs. emacs. The most common software that I use these days is mainly vim, tmux, and chromium.</div>
<div>- I enjoy my GUIs to be minimal; I don't like GNOME, KDE, or XFCE.</div><div>- My favorite window manager is (currently) i3wm because it's simple and it gets the job done.</div><div>- I prefer stable packages.</div>
<div>- Because I'm considering a Lenovo ThinkPad X230t, the distribution I'll be looking towards should support touchscreen capabilities.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Jordan Erickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerickson@logicalnetworking.net" target="_blank">jerickson@logicalnetworking.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It's all Linux on the inside.. just depends on your preference.<br>
<br>
+ What are 3 main "things you do" on your computer? (web browsing, video<br>
editing, development, running an online porn site...?)<br>
+ Are you a minimalist, or do you like all the bells and whistles (vi<br>
vs. emacs, watch out for flames)<br>
+ Do you value GUI configuration tools?<br>
+ What is your favorite DE / window manager?<br>
+ Do you prefer stable/older packages or potentially buggy/newer packages?<br>
+ Do you have any specialized hardware that would necessitate a certain<br>
distro or line of distros?<br>
<br>
All of these questions will play into your choice / evolution of<br>
choices. It's cliche in the Linux world but it's true: Try them all and<br>
see which one you like the best. You wouldn't buy a car without test<br>
driving it first, right? You might fall in love with one you disregarded<br>
before based on past assumptions.<br>
<br>
Personally, I use Debian wherever I can but that's just because I'm so<br>
used to it and it's characteristics (that and I feel that I align very<br>
well with the whole Debian philosophy). I should try SuSE, CentOS and<br>
others again sometime though.<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Jordan<br>
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On 11/08/2013 12:52 AM, Zack Gold wrote:<br>
> Yes, I am going to start a discussion about this. But it's only<br>
> because I've been seriously considering switching out of Arch Linux<br>
> and onto a distribution that doesn't have rolling release. Plus I'd<br>
> like something a bit more stable for my Lenovo that will soon come.<br>
><br>
> So, I'm wondering what Linux distribution you use and why you like it<br>
> so much.<br>
> --<br>
> Zack Gold<br>
> Former NBLUG Scribe<br>
><br>
><br>
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