Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint
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Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

Both good choices. My current adventure is linux from scratch.

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Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

Debian. I have used it for about 20 years now. I run a derivative,
Devuan, on a couple of boxes.


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Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
By: Matheo Syversen to All on Thu Aug 07 2025 05:07:26

Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

I love Mint for Desktop. For Servers, Debian 1st and Ubuntu 2nd. Alpine for the smallest minimal Docker containers.

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Hello, Matheo Syversen.
On 07.08.2025 05:07 you wrote:

Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

1. Mint XFCE
2. XUbuntu or Lubuntu


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Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
By: Ivan Zelenyi to Matheo Syversen on Thu Aug 07 2025 20:31:58

Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

1. Mint XFCE
2. XUbuntu or Lubuntu

+1 for Mint XFCE. i use it instead of Cinnamon when the system is a bit older. For example, i have Mint XFCE on a HP ThinClient in the living room and Mint Cinnamon on my MiniPC in the "Office".

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Hi Matheo,

07 Aug 25 05:07, you wrote to All:

Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

Use Gentoo for some time and really like it

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Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
By: Matheo Syversen to All on Thu Aug 07 2025 05:07:26

Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

Hate to be redundant, but Mint is mine as well.
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Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
By: Matheo Syversen to All on Thu Aug 07 2025 05:07:26

Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

Hate to be redundant, but Mint is mine as well.

I like Mint, too - but thinking about moving to plain ol' Debian. I
started using LMDE on my laptop, but I'm looking back to a simple
interface and having less temptation to change things around.



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Re: Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
By: Kurt Weiske to Mortar M. on Sun Aug 10 2025 08:10:31

...I'm looking back to a simple interface...

If you want to get back to basics, then check out Slackware or Arch. It don't get more "simple" than those...interface wise.
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Hello, Mortar M..
On 11.08.2025 09:39 you wrote:

If you want to get back to basics, then check out Slackware or Arch. It don't get more
"simple" than those...interface wise.

Yesterday I installed slackware 14.2 xfce on an old computer at work (1.8 GHz, 1 GB DDR). It was my first experience with Slackware. It is stable and fast :-)

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I have only used LiveCD's of Ubuntu and Mint tosee what's what with Linux. Played more with Ubuntu, first with 7.04 and then several LTS versions .

Even put Ubuntu in an Innotek VirtualBox to play some on the XP box long ago.

Liked Ubuntu but haven't used it in years
Think the last U'u I downloaded on the XP was v.16 or v. 18 before loosing DSL service for the desktop system.

I don't care much tapping on the cellphone virtual keyboard so know I won't eventhink of trying out Linux on this thing
Though, I still can play with U'u on the XP box when or if I want to , as I still have the CD's I put the D/L's on.
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Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
By: Matheo Syversen to All on Thu Aug 07 2025 05:07 am

Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

For me, it really depends on what I'm using it for. Dedicated projects tend to get either Arch or another very specific/specialized distro. For server/networking stuff, it's Ubuntu. For peronal use, Fedora has effectively won my heart.

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Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?

I tried to put Linux Mint Cinammon on what was my late Mom's
computer, but apparently the motherboard was too old to support
it. It apparently installed OK, but after I reboot, I couldn't
get past the password prompt to login.

Daryl

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Re: Whats your favorite Linux
By: Daryl Stout to Jonathan A Lloyd on Thu Sep 04 2025 10:31 am

I tried to put Linux Mint Cinammon on what was my late Mom's
computer, but apparently the motherboard was too old to support
it. It apparently installed OK, but after I reboot, I couldn't
get past the password prompt to login.

That is unfortunate. What was the motherboard, if you don't mind my asking? I'm wondering what specifically would hinder the password prompt but not the installation itself.
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Jonathan,

That is unfortunate. What was the motherboard, if you don't
mind my asking? I'm wondering what specifically would hinder
the password prompt but not the installation itself.

First, I'd have to power it back on, but I had to swap out the
monitor that was on it, as I had another monitor that failed. With
overnight thunderstorms forecast, I'll be shutting things down before
I go to bed.

Second, the install seemed to work just fine, but after the
reboot, I could never get past the password prompt. Several have
told me that because it was a 32-bit system and the install was
64-bit, combined with the CPU being too slow, was why it would
not work.

Daryl

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Re: Whats your favorite Linux
By: Daryl Stout to Jonathan A Lloyd on Fri Sep 05 2025 08:30 pm

Second, the install seemed to work just fine, but after the
reboot, I could never get past the password prompt. Several have
told me that because it was a 32-bit system and the install was
64-bit, combined with the CPU being too slow, was why it would
not work.

Ah, yep, that'll do it. Sorry to hear that, still. I only used Linux Mint on my laptop for about a month or so before I made the switch to Fedora. Used to be an Ubuntu main, then Arch before grad school basically forced me back to Windows to a bit.
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