Suggest Ubuntu Alternative

[Whizard72]

Mint is just not for me. I'm a Ubuntu user and I compile my own kernels and re-build some of my system stack, not needed? No but I do because I can. =)

ArchLinux does 'unnerve' me when I spend tons of hours installing and tweaking everything just right and a bleeding edge package destroys hours of work in seconds. That's not for me or any other sane computer user with an actual day job and family life.

OpenSuse? Well SUSE Linux 9.1 was my first linux distro back in 2005 before I switched to Ubuntu in 2009. Nowadays I can't make headway with OpenSUSE, it's too different in terms of how I've learned to do things.

The others are good but they aren't better than Ubuntu which sucks in some ways also.

Windows 7? I love how fast it makes thumbnails of all your media files, even PDFs and h264 encoded matroska containers. Oh wait..

Windows 8? ROTFLMAO!!! Good joke mate.

OSX? Well I'd consider running that if I thought I had anything but bad choices for the box to run it on! The only box that fits me is the Mac Pro and that's a $2500 entrance fee.

Seriously...


Okay so Mint leaves that bad Ubuntu taste in your mouth? Arch unnerves you? Well that restricts your greatly.

KDE based
Chakra
OpenSuse (12.3 releases soon)

Gnome
Fedora
Mageia
PCLinuxOS


Since it's free try them all on a banger box or virtual machine and see if you dig any of them... if not. Windows 7 or OsX =)

[bwat47]

I like fedora, once you add the rpmfusion repo for multimedia stuff and the infinality repo for good font rendering its great I'm currently using fedora 18 with gnome 3 and it runs great, very solid; surprisingly actually more stable than ubuntu 12.10 did for me and this is a system76 laptop (all my hardware works out of the box in fedora 18 too, in ubuntu i needed to install the system76 driver to get the card reader and brightness keys to work)

[TestingTe]

GNU/Linux: Trisquel is a nice distro based on Ubuntu. Made specifically to remove all proprietary stuff, and keep true to the Four Freedoms of GNU ;P

FreeBSD: PC-BSD for out-of-the-box-ness (note though: everything in the app cafe is *not* everything that is available for installation.) and GhostBSD for sommat nice and simple.

[t.s.]

Go with openSuse or Mageia. OpenSuse yast (control panel) and Mageia Control Panel is top notch

[CthuIhux]

FreeBSD: PC-BSD for out-of-the-box-ness (note though: everything in the app cafe is *not* everything that is available for installation.) and GhostBSD for sommat nice and simple.

PC-BSD is has no out-of-the-box-ness retard

It's a so badly configured that it often does not work and requires loads of configuring in the end. That's why it's not popular at all despite PCBSD devs claim it's user friendly. In fact, PCBSD is on the decline. BSDstats.org showed that in 2007-2008 PCBSD made up ~70% of all BSD while FreeBSD makes up ~20%, today PCBSD makes up ~16% while FreeBSD makes up 80%. It's not that FreeBSD usage increased but rather, both have decreased but PCBSD has decreased quicker and is going the way of DesktopBSD. EPIC FAIL.

Yes, App cafe is everything available for installation cause (Un)FreeBSD ports don't work well with them.

With FreeBSD the number of software avalible in ports is pathetic compared with most linux distro and also they are all out of date (GNOME is the prime example). With PCBSD, you have even less software and thier even more out of date.

Also GhostBSD is broken, buggy and the "maintainer" recently admits he's got no time to fuck with it. So it won't go any where (not even in the history books).

Conclusion: BSD poeple/fuckers are a bunch fucking pathetic losers who can't achieve anything but crap

[TestingTe]

PC-BSD is has no out-of-the-box-ness retard

So your choice of Desktop Environment, & Window Manager, & extra tools for server work, && additional web browsers and more during installation is not out-of-the-box? Explain this, if you please?

It's a ??so badly configured that it often does not work and requires loads of configuring in the end.

If thou coulds't explain how you mean...

BSDstats.org showed that in 2007-2008 PCBSD made up ~70% of all BSD while FreeBSD makes up ~20%, today PCBSD makes up ~16% while FreeBSD makes up 80%. It's not that FreeBSD usage increased but rather, both have decreased but PCBSD has decreased quicker and is going the way of DesktopBSD. EPIC FAIL.

About as relevant as DistroWatch's stats on the most popular distro. Ubuntu still reings supreme, despite it showing that Mint is in the lead.

With FreeBSD the number of software avalible in ports is pathetic compared with most linux distro

Debian:23143 FreeBSD:24151
Hmmm...

and also they are all out of date (GNOME is the prime example).

Not counting what has difficulty porting over due to its deep integration with GNU/Linux: KDE: latest version, FireFox: latest version, XFCE, LXDE, Chromium, Blender, everything-that-does-not-have-deep-integration-with-GNU/Linux: Latest version. Those who have used FreeBSD in recent years know this ;P

Also GhostBSD is broken, buggy

....How? If you could explain any of your claims you might just get somewhere.

Conclusion: BSD poeple are a bunch of ****** pathetic losers who can't achieve anything but crap

Leaving out the fact that Netflix and Yahoo use FreeBSD for their servers and that Apple uses FreeBSD coding in their kernel, aye?

Have a good day sir xD

[e_tank]

manjaro linux. it is to arch linux what ubuntu is to debian. i use arch myself, not manjaro, so i can't comment on it first hand but i've heard almost nothing but good things about it so far.

[elsie]

If you don't need bleeding edge (or even modern) Debian Wheezy is coming soon. If you really really don't care about new stuff use Debian Squeeze. It's stable as stink & still uses good ol' gnome2. Very easy to make an attractive productive environment. Biggest issue for me is Steam won't install...meh. Debian is ubuntu without the schizophrenia.

Otherwise take the time to learn Arch or use one of it's friendly derivatives. It's like gentoo but a bit kinder. I only ditched Arch when gnome3 entered the repos, otherwise it was pretty solid. I ran it for 2 years without major issue. Rolling releases are much nicer than backing up & reinstalling.

ya...so as mainstream distros go I suggest either stubborn Debian or Arch.

I totally miss Arch

[n3wu53r]

Go with openSuse or Mageia.

+1
Especially if you are going to use KDE.

[Hermit]

Seriously...


Okay so Mint leaves that bad Ubuntu taste in your mouth? Arch unnerves you? Well that restricts your greatly.

KDE based
Chakra
OpenSuse (12.3 releases soon)

Gnome
Fedora
Mageia
PCLinuxOS


Since it's free try them all on a banger box or virtual machine and see if you dig any of them... if not. Windows 7 or OsX =) .

Mageia and PCLinuxOS are both KDE based, and pretty well done too.

As for me, I use Fedora (with KDE) myself. I like the somewhat bleeding edge packages (but not Arch-level bleeding edge). yum keeps your system up-to-date. SELinux out of the box is nice, although some people think it's a pain in the ass. Once you configure it it's pretty much trouble-free and provides much better security.

I've got a little script that installs the various extras that that make the user experience much nicer. RPM fusion repo for codecs and nVidia driver, infinality for fonts, also Adobe flash and Google chrome.