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Hello everyone,,
I am looking for a good Linux distro.
A distro with root login and kde plasma.[s
I have been running PClinuxOS which has the basic structure I am looking for,
but it proves to be quite problematic. So because of that I'm looking for another.
As evo2 said, it's difficult to say what you'd like unless we know what you don't like. And it may actually be easier to solve your problem with PCLinuxOS than to start again with something new. I've seen quite a few people who've moved endlessly — distro A was fine but it didn't seem to do X, distro B did X out of the box but not Y, and so on!
Frank likes Debian and Slackware; I would avoid both of them. If some-one ask me to recommend a KDE distro, I'd say PCLinixOS, Open SUSE, or Kubuntu. But that's me.
with just one usb stick and a connection to the internet, and a terminal, you can try as many as you like until you find the one you're looking for.
as far as root user access, Slackware, someone said Debian, and I think Mint but you got a fiddle with it to get root access beyond sudo. if it wasn't mint that i am thinkng of then it was something else, maybe it was a Ubunututu knock off
I have found Slackware to be unbeatable for quality of service and reliability and allowing me to own and control my machine. There is some software that I need to use that requires systemd linux and so I have an ubuntu version on hand. I probably should be using Debian instead of Ubuntu.
sudo su
will give you root access in ubuntu easy enough
indeed that sudo this, sudo that, stuff is for the birds.
Last edited by Regnad Kcin; 07-10-2019 at 06:12 AM.
Hello everyone,,
I am looking for a good Linux distro.
A distro with root login and kde plasma.[s
I have been running PClinuxOS which has the basic structure I am looking for,
but it proves to be quite problematic. So because of that I'm looking for another.
Any suggestions.
#1 I think you miht be far ahead to solve your problems with PCLINUX rather then breaking on an entire new distro.
#2 Breaking in entire new distro's can be FUN. SO I cannot advise for or against that option.
#3 have you not heard of https://www.distrowatch.com/? There is no better place to start researching available distributions.
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