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Slippyblade:
I am a long time windows user but am truly hating the path it is taking with walled gardens and app stores in the future.  I've wanted to look at Linux for a long time but am lost in the sea of distro's.

Any advice on which distro to look at as a desktop replacement for my windows machine?  I don't do a ton of stuff on my desktop machine, MAME is in a dedicated cabinet so that is not an issue.  I do, however, play a lot of retro PC stuff via DOSbox through GOG.com...  (love that site)

Help, advice, comments?

boomerbrian:
Ubuntu or Mint would be my choices. I run Ubuntu on my laptop and it works great.

Slippyblade:
I guess the question becomes, why?  What do those distro's have/not have that others don't?

Sorry, not trying to be thick.  Just new to that particular scene.

Player 3:

--- Quote from: Slippyblade on October 29, 2012, 08:29:24 pm ---I guess the question becomes, why?  What do those distro's have/not have that others don't?

Sorry, not trying to be thick.  Just new to that particular scene.

--- End quote ---

If you tried a mainstream one, you almost tried them all. It's just default features and stability that have people.

Ubuntu is pretty much the most supported of all the distros. Arch is its own circlejerk, constantly referring it to others whenever this kind of question comes up (and thus tarnishing Linux reputation). As for my opinion, Debian, Mint, or Fedora would be good things to start with. Or Elementary OS. It's something I'd like to try out but can't thanks to how this laptop works. Plus Elementary is Ubuntu-based, so any problems you have for it can be solved by Ubuntu gurus.

Ubuntu has Unity, part of GNOME 3. Unity is under fire in a way similar to the interface formerly called Metro to Windows 8. Mint has both options with GNOME 2 and 3. Elementary OS appears to go by GNOME 2.

Anything Ubuntu-based will soon be supported by Valve Inc., major gaming company known for Steam.

boomerbrian:
Ubuntu and Mint are two very popular distros and both are great for desktops.

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