You Only NEED 3 Linux Distributions

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• After all the Redhat drama… I'd revise this clip – "You Only need 2 Distros"
  1. Debian for stable environments
  2. Arch for cutting edge

• Came upon this video very late. I no longer use any RH distros. I also avoid the SuSE distros only because of the overall situation with them. I like Debian and at work I use Ubuntu since that is the selected distro there. But I have used Slackware for 31years and still love it. Slackware was the first Linux build I ever did in 1993.

• I spent 10 years on Ubuntu, but 5 years ago I abandoned it, I went around several distributions, but the only one that convinced me was openSUSE. I started with Leap, and then almost immediately moved on to Tumbleweed.
  It's one of the few "off the shelf" distributions that offers an automated snapshot system, which saved me.
  After 5 years, I can only say that I'm really happy with it, I've only re-installed once, only because I changed my SSD.
  As with all distributions, you need to be a little familiar with package and repository management, but once you understand how it works, you'll be fine.

• You have no idea what you're talking about.

• That's the reason I never went fully Linux. There's too many damn choices. It's like a freaking Netflix where you can pass hours choosing something and still choose badly. Linux will never dethrone windows because of this. It's too damn confusing.

• Debian
  OpenSUSE
  Gentoo

• I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH U !
  I JUST INSTALLED WHATEVER SET OF PAKAGES SUITED FOR ME IN ARCH AND IT'S BEEN ALMOST 4 YEARS !
  NOW I'M WAITING TO GIMP 3.0 TO DO THIS AGAIN AND COMPLETELY MOVE TO WAYLAND FOR ANOTHER UPCOMING YEARS !

• There is Devuan Linux, Artix Linux that are forks but aren't just "some fork with different packages installed" you can't just intall debian and transform it into Devuan the same is for Artix…

  There is void linux, it is not a fork, it's great, very minimalistic and it does not depend on gnu libc.

  Gentoo and Slackware are linuxes that still to this day very appealing for learning more how does linux works.

• Meanwhile no dev managed to get a scroll wheel speed adjuster into the mouse settings of any distro

• As much as people hate Snap anf Flatpak, those apps just work. No more missing dependencies, broken after update

• Fedora has many fewer packages than Debian. Fedora without third party repositories is small. …

• To be honest, tumbleweed is great and stable when you need a rolling release with bleeding edge drivers, e.g. for a new laptop.

• I need debian, but I prefer Ubuntu over debian anyway. I like GUI for doing LTS-upgrades better than doing by command. But this release, i think I will do upgrade with commands, so I dont have to wait.
  Fedora seems to be a good balance between the stable Debian and the edge bleeding or was it cutting Arch? 🙂

• I remember when you could buy OpenSuSE in a box from Fry's electronics.

• Chris, OpenSUSE TW isn't really as niche as you think. It's RPM-based, and updates are pretty much along the same lines as Fedora is. Granted, it's considered a 'rolling release', but it's not as devil-may-care with updates the same way that Arch is. I am currently running TW and it's super stable, it's got a great repository of apps, and between the Flathub automatically included and its OpenBuild Service, it's the closest you get can get to something like the AUR. You should check it out, frankly. And it has YaST, which is a very powerful tool that no other distro has.

  To the folks blathering about dropping Fedora because of Redhat's shenanigans, you've totally lost the plot if you think what RH has done is going to impact Fedora.

• OpenSUSE = stability for servers + new enough for gaming, and windows user friendly control panel for most things.

  Been using it sense 2001

• Arch for cutting edge, Redhat for production servers, Debian for stability, and Nix has it all.

• slackware is the don't care distro

• We just need Ubuntu for desktop, Redhat for servers, Chrome os for webbooks, android for phones, steam os for consoles. The rest is just trash and a waste of time those developers could spend on polishing the main distros.

• If many developers dedicated themselves to writing scripts to customize Debian/Ubuntu, Arch and Fedora instead of making forks, life would be much simpler: you download your new DistroScript, all the installation and configuration is done automatically and if you don't like how it turned out, you run another Script that leaves the system as before deleting all the new packages and repeating the cycle

• For me it's
  artix for bleeding edge
  Nobara for personal use
  Open Suse for enterprise work

• Open SUSE isn't obscure!

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