Which Linux distribution should you use?
Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:27:09 PM
It all depends what you are looking for really. First you need to figure out if you want to use Gnome or KDE as desktop environment.
Many users is using Gnome as their desktop envionment, so lets say that´s the one you want to use.
Now we need to think about using 32 or 64bit Linux system, you probably want to use 32bit for the first time to be sure everything works. But you also want 64bit available too.
Now we need to think about how your system should be updated/upgraded. Some Linux distributions have upgrades every 6/8 or 9 months, some using rolling updates and be upgraded as soon there is a new stable version of something.
As regular usage of the computer, you probably want to use latest stable versions of everything. Instead of getting few hundreds updates every 6-9 months. (can also be a pain if something breaks during the update) And maybe you don´t got a great internet speed, and want to save some bandwith too. Fedora, Ubuntu or Opensuse uses 6-8 months upgrades and even installs back the default applications you uninstalled. That is something i don´t want to happen in my dist i use.
And offcourse you want to be able to rollback the system if something should break. Like go back in time to a point where the computer worked just fine.
So this is want we want:
- Gnome
- 32 or 64bit system
- Rolling updates
- Rollback feature














Antero Hytönenanzah # Monday, August 17, 2009 1:24:40 AM
Luckily I don't need to do it that often, usually update just doesn't compile.
Rolling updates is quite handy thing to have, if things dont' break up too often.
Tomas ForsmanTForsman # Monday, August 17, 2009 6:39:15 AM