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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
Ubuntu MATE not listed? I consider it, for my purposes as well as my friends', the ideal distro for complete n00bz as well as old Linux hands. MATE is available on a slew of distros, but Ubuntu MATE is the best way to experience the sublime MATE desktop.
Besides, the Welcome window enables the user to install graphics drivers and a lot of software. Ana MATE is quite lightweight: when booted and idle, it uses <500 megs of RAM.
Last edited by oldrocker99; 01-30-2018 at 09:05 AM.
Reason: Adding another paragraph
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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Originally Posted by wagscat123
I wonder if openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap is worth splitting - it's interesting to see which is more popular, but splitting them will give each of them a marginal percentage.
I've heard of Tumbleweed work for some people, but it's a bit much over rural DSL, thus I save it for being the last remnant of SUSE on my 32-bit childhood machine.
I, for one, suggested it earlier on. I used to use openSUSE since 6.3 or so but the leaps were terrible in my opinion. From 42.2 which I never got to run acceptably I switched to tumbleweed -- and not never looked back but only with pity and wonder. Tumbleweed is such a leap (sic!) forward from leap that it borders on the incredible. And rock stable at that with no "cutting edge woes", though a good Connection to the net is preferable .
And, for what it is worth you (or everybody else interested) can simply add the votes / percentages of leap and tumbleweed. Comments so far clearly favour tumbleweed with no vote for leap...
Ubuntu MATE not listed? I consider it, for my purposes as well as my friends', the ideal distro for complete n00bz as well as old Linux hands. MATE is available on a slew of distros, but Ubuntu MATE is the best way to experience the sublime MATE desktop.
There's just Ubuntu. If every distro had separate listings for each of its supported desktop environments, I imagine that there would be a very large number of choices!
Distribution: UNK: (NEW Workstation) AMD 5900X w/64GB; CentOS 7 (Workstation) AMD FX 6300 w/32GB;
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You're Missing CentOS
I was surprised you did not include CentOS in this list, but included Fedora. I love CentOS 7.4 because it is STABLE, and does not change. Fedora changes every 6 months, and users live on the Bleeding Edge. I a Desktop STABILITY should count. Yes, CentOS 7.4 is a GREAT Server distro, buit it is also GREAT for workstations and as a serious Desktop distro as well.
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