Re: 10 Most Used Linux Distributions of All Time

On 30/03/2024 17:00, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-03-29, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

On 29/03/2024 10:01, G wrote:
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
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In comp.os.linux.misc, John McCue  <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> wrote:
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Nothing against those 2 distros, but in the 90s, in
reality, there were really 2 Linuxes, Slackware and Debian.
In the early days, Linux was Slackware then others started
to get popular in the late 90s.

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Debian is only a couple of months younger than Slackware. But earlly
days I remember a lot more Yggdrasil than Debian.
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Oh boy, Yggdrasil! That brings me back, my first Linux installation from
around 20 floppy on a Compaq with a massive (Massive! I say) 10MB HD.
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Elijah
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recalls using Redhat in late nineties

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And that was my second... I actually bought the box.

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Only two versions I knew back in the day were Debian and Red Hat, a
friend had SUSE.
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When the time came I tried out everything and Debian worked OK, but was
lacking in desktop frills, so I tried Ubuntu, but for whatever reason
the installation failed, so I tried mint Mate.
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And have never seen any reason to try anything else.

 The first Linux I ran was Slackware, for a simple pragmatic reason:
I looked at the Linux books in the local bookstore, and the book I
liked best was by Patrick Volkerding and came with a Slackware 3.5
CD.  I stayed with Slackware for some time, but eventually got tired
of chasing dependencies when installing or updating software.  Maybe
it had a package manager, but I didn't know about it.  At that point
I tried a number of other distributions on my laptop, leaving my
main machine alone until I made a decision.  I stayed with CrunchBang
(with BlackBox) for a while (lean and mean), then tried Mint, which
was OK but had nothing that really excited me.  Mageia didn't last
long; KDE was beautiful but heavyweight, and I kept getting console
messages from strange processes I had never asked for and didn't want.
Ubuntu was pretty and easy to use, but release 10 went to the Unity
desktop, which I didn't like.  Eventually I settled on Debian (with
Xfce) and have been happily there ever since.
 

I was watching a lot of video and listening to auidio as well and Mint came with all the right codecs installed
That was key to my staying with it
Debian +xfce is a neat choice if you don't want to run videos etc.
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