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Hi! I would like your opinion on which GNU/Linux distro I should choose that meets these requirements:
*binary and/or source based(but I prefer binary)
*Good documentation
*supports new hardware(specifically integrated graphics and recent Realteck wifi chipset)
*allows closed source software to be used(closed source software doesn't have to be included out of the box, just available)
*allows me to learn more about GNU/Linux (I consider myself to be intermediate experienced and I am not a completely new GNU/Linux user that has trouble using a distro other than Ubuntu Linux)Also, I am not afraid of the CLI(command line interface).
Thank You all, and have a NICE DAY!
At least Fedora and CentOS are well documented.
Mint is not, but Ubuntu documentation usually applies.
Also *buntus don't support all HW features too well, like laptop-mode-tools.
(Not updated by Canonical, and replacement seems to be hard to find.
Commercially less significant features are often left to low priority.)
In general
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*allows closed source software to be used
and
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*allows me to learn more about GNU/Linux
tend to be mutually exclusive The latter often indicates some kind of
philosophical purity that is against the former, and the former tends to indicate philosophy of user orientation, and thus tendency to hide technical stuff from the user.
Last edited by turboscrew; 03-07-2015 at 02:09 AM.
Hi! I would like your opinion on which GNU/Linux distro I should choose that meets these requirements:
*binary and/or source based(but I prefer binary)
*Good documentation
*supports new hardware(specifically integrated graphics and recent Realteck wifi chipset)
*allows closed source software to be used(closed source software doesn't have to be included out of the box, just available)
*allows me to learn more about GNU/Linux (I consider myself to be intermediate experienced and I am not a completely new GNU/Linux user that has trouble using a distro other than Ubuntu Linux)Also, I am not afraid of the CLI(command line interface).
Thank You all, and have a NICE DAY!
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