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Arch - bare minimum for a running system comes installed, a lot of user control. Fedora - bleeding edge technologies tend to show up here before any other majo
by dangerlibrary 10y ago
Arch - bare minimum for a running system comes installed, a lot of user control.
Fedora - bleeding edge technologies tend to show up here before any other major distros
Debian - (I have no experience using vanilla debian, so ... n/a?)
Ubuntu - stable LTS releases and broad hardware support if you are willing to put up with/replace canonical's weird unity bullshit and non-oss software.
- Arcsech 10y agoTo add to this: CentOS/RHEL: Aimed at enterprise use, so it's often slow to get package updates (but quick to get security updates), but is very very stable.
- Retr0spectrum 10y agoArch is also fairly bleeding-edge in terms of packages. Debian is pretty much the same as Ubuntu, without all the "weird unity bullshit and non-oss software".
- snuxoll 10y agoAlso, Fedora is the incubator for the GNOME and FreeDesktop projects. It's not just that it is bleeding edge, but it is the distribution used by the developers behind these projects. Fedora releases are essentially synced to new releases of GNOME, so if you're a GNOME user like me it may be a good choice if you always want the latest and greatest.