Re: Distro recommendation

Efraim Flashner <efraim-13Rj+LLFh/9S1MOuV/[email protected]> Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:17:27 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.region.israel
Message-ID	<20171119171727.GB991@macbook41>

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 09:54:42AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon 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)?
> 

Another option I've heard good things about is KDE Neon. It's the latest
KDE on top of Ubuntu LTS.

I've recently switched from Debian to Guix after using it for more than
5 years. Currently there is work in Guix to get a working KDE desktop
but there isn't yet.

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