It’s common for Linux users to hop between distributions and survey the field, and I recently reached a point where I had to seriously rethink the one I was using most of the time. Between hardware compatibility issues with my old standby and some discouraging missteps with other go-to choices, I felt the time had come to reassess my pool of preferred distributions and repopulate it from scratch. As my journey progressed, I realized that as often as I’ve discussed the field of Linux-based systems, I had not addressed how to pick one out.
I defer to PrimeSuspect's judgment when he says that this is a good article. I even go beyond: This article is great and remarkable at the same time. No propaganda of any kind, no dogmas, no lofty praises, no clumsy attempts to 'convince' readers. If only other authors on LinuxInsider did the same (SIGH). What I like best is that what you call your personal opinions are valuable insights based on experience. Really great.
Although a passionate user of LM, I am flirting with the idea of installing Manjaro alongside LM in order to see whether it is as good as LM on the long run. What would you think about an article in which you would compare these two? I would appreciate such a piece.
A good article that I consider to be a fair analysis of a typical distro hopping journey. The truth is the Linux world is littered with stuff folks neither want nor need yet prospective migrants to Linux will encounter these and end up frustrated and disillusioned as a result with many moving back to Windows. Vanity driven distros are a plague as are the number of desktop choices. Assuming the goal of Linux is to increase market share then many of the distro reviews don't help either. Most of the technical types will already be using Linux so the target audience needs to be folks who just surf the web, use social media and office apps. 99% of all distros will achieve this without falling over yet many of the reviews concentrate on technical glitches average users will never encounter, with the possible exception of smartphone integration. Unfortunately in the Linux world there is just too much of everything with not enough emphasis on quality control. It's also a shame that DistroWatch appears so prominently in search results. Folks unaware of how these rankings are set tend to regard this list as a quality guide which it most definitely is not. Many of the distros towards the bottom are far better than some at the top.
Changing Up Your Linux Distro
Posted by: Jonathan Terrasi October 31, 2018 09:18 AMIt’s common for Linux users to hop between distributions and survey the field, and I recently reached a point where I had to seriously rethink the one I was using most of the time. Between hardware compatibility issues with my old standby and some discouraging missteps with other go-to choices, I felt the time had come to reassess my pool of preferred distributions and repopulate it from scratch. As my journey progressed, I realized that as often as I’ve discussed the field of Linux-based systems, I had not addressed how to pick one out.
Although a passionate user of LM, I am flirting with the idea of installing Manjaro alongside LM in order to see whether it is as good as LM on the long run. What would you think about an article in which you would compare these two? I would appreciate such a piece.