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> After Red-Hat and Mandrake, it became my favourite home distro until Ubuntu came into the scene. I fucking loved Mandrake. And Red Hat on a PowerMac. It was
by kergonath 2y ago
> After Red-Hat and Mandrake, it became my favourite home distro until Ubuntu came into the scene.
I fucking loved Mandrake. And Red Hat on a PowerMac. It was a challenge but it was very rewarding when it worked. I had the opposite trajectory after that, though. I tried Ubuntu when it was new and shiny but ran into so many issues… Now I have been using OpenSuse continuously for about 6 years without complaint. Even the usual (though much rarer than it used to be) sticking point of Nvidia drivers are trivial to deal with by restoring snapshots.
- pjmlp 2y agoMy whole story was that other than a netbook running Ubuntu, now dead, all my Linux stuff at home, are custom stuff on the router and BlueRay player that at least run Linux kernel itself, Android and WebOS powered devices, and running containers on WSL/macOS. Mandrake was great, by its usability and being compiled for Pentiums instead of 386 CPUs. The move to SuSE was when their development quality started to go down, and eventually pivoted into some other distro.