[LINUX TUTORIALS] Choosing a desktop Linux distribution, part II

in linux •  8 years ago 

Face it, we're talking about your "main OS"

Everyone knows dual-booting sucks anyway.
Windows is for wimps.
MacOS is for mental midgets.

Therefore

This article is, by necessity,

DEATHLY SERIOUS.

We have three new entrants, ready for a nice hazing. So here goes:

SolusOS

strengths

  • Gorgeous budgie desktop environment
  • Budgie has great gtk compatibility
  • It's own package manager

weaknesses

  • Very few packages available in the package manager
  • This is a desktop only os, not suited for servers
  • Small dev team and community limits project velocity

Gentoo

strengths

*Package manager builds things from source

  • ULTIMATE CONTROL
  • EVERYONE WILL KNOW YOUR NECKBEARD POWERS

Weaknesses

  • No one can come up with a scenario where it is better than Ubuntu, debian, or arch, especially since it's package manager doesn't pull from project git repositories. It will remain a polka dotted horse in a field of Jersey cows and wily werewolves and the like.
    • Unless that scenario involves things that people pay no mind to.
  • Just you try for enterprise adoption, just you try....

SuSe

Strengths

  • Gnome and KDE support!
  • It's French!
  • Yay now we can use redhat packages....
  • Provides the Linux community with a very handy automated packaging tool. Really it is great.

weaknesses

  • It's French!
  • Only really supports KDE
  • Uses redhat packages
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Dual booting does suck, but if you want to play Overwatch you need Windows :c

Then clearly you haven't been anointed at the church of open source ;)

Yes I believe OpenSuse to be maintained by some french users, but what is exactly the problem with that? To me it sounds more like a pro than a con.

It's neither :).

I do hope you realize by now, the series is kinda tongue-in-cheek.

Could you elaborate on 'its french' part ?

Isn't it French?