Re: Distro recommendation

Mint has dropped the KDE version.

What about arch?

On Nov 19, 2017 10:22, "Rabin Yasharzadehe" <rabin-OghmkI/[email protected]> wrote:

> I like to go with Fedora MATE spin as I find it resource friendly.
> and I use compiz as my window manager to have a very robust features and
> some eye candy features as well.
>
> Fedora move fast and have a short release cycle (6 month),
> so having to deal with new stuff each 6 month can be a burden for someone
> how just want his computer to work.
> in that case I'll recommend a distro which is based on Ubuntu LTS e,g
> Ubuntu MATE.
>
> MATE desktop dose not support HiDPI display yet, unlike KDE and Gnome3
> but if you prefer to use KDE, both Fedoa and Ubuntu have a spin of it.
>
> there is also KDE neon which uses a stable base of the OS (Ubuntu LTS
> IIRC),
> and all the KDE stuff are coming directly from upstream (rolling)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Rabin
>
> On 19 November 2017 at 09:54, Shlomo Solomon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't want to start a Distro war, but ...
>>
>> I've been on Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia for over 17!!!! years, but from
>> what I've read, there are quite a few problems with Mageia 6 (I'm
>> still on 5), and it's really strange that it's been 2 years in the
>> making.
>>
>> So I'm thinking about abandoning ship.
>>
>> I definitely want to stay with KDE (never liked Gnome) and I really
>> like how configurable Mageia is.
>>
>> I don't think this should be an issue, but my computer is fairly old (a
>> 4 year old i5 Haswell CPU with 8 Gb).
>>
>> I've been thinking about Mint, Kubuntu or Fedora - any thoughts (or
>> additional options)?
>>
>> --
>> Shlomo Solomon
>> http://the-solomons.net
>> Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.14.30 - Dolphin 4.14.3 - LINUX Mageia 5
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