Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:31:15 +0000 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 15 March 2018 at 13:55, Alan Whiteman <a.c.whiteman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > My vote goes to Linux Mint. Superb distro.
> 
> 
> I believe that Mint is based on Ubuntu, so if ethernet is an issue with
> Ubuntu I imagine the same will be true of Mint.  In fact if you can get any
> Linux version to work with your card then Ubuntu should work with the same
> drivers.

One of Mint's "improvements" over Ubuntu is additional drivers, partitularly
closed source ones. Ubuntu (and Debian), like Red Hat Enterprise linux is
fairly "strict" with reguard to being a totally open source distribution. Mint
is "looser" in that reguard.

> 
> Colin
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> >
> >
> > On 03/15/2018 06:21 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> >
> >> On 15 March 2018 at 07:43, Amish <anon.amish at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>>
> >>> Try Arch Linux if you are willing to put initial efforts in learning and
> >>> a
> >>> bit of tweaking here and there.
> >>>
> >>> It is not an ideal distribution for a newbie to Linux. It is very much
> >> aimed at more advanced users.
> >>
> >>
> >> Amish
> >>>
> >>> Dave
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