[ShadowAce]

[Openurmind]

This is very good thank you!

I have always compared it to the hierarchy of automobile manufacturers and options.

GM > Pontiac > Firebird > assorted options packages badged as the end model.

[CtBigPat]

[Pollard]

Just Ubuntu flavors

[Bob434]

There’s a distro out there, Linux fx? I 5hink is the name, that is supposed to poor a lot like windows. I haven’t tried it out, but might try it in a virtual machine j9ust to check it out, but real,y I am more than happy with mint cinnamon. I was a distro hopper for awhile, looking for the right one, but soon discovered that most were very similar, so I settled,on mint cinnamon and haven’t looked back. I did kind of like the challenge of manjaro, but I kept breaking things, knowing only just enough to get myself In Trouble lol.

My mind is too tired now for new things, so,I stick with the tried and true, and don’t mess with it too much

[ptsal]

Good post. Useful info.

[Terry L Smith]

my biggest fear of putting toe in linux water ....
do i have to reconfigure the hard drive?
all my files, pdf, mp4, txt, jpg, rtf, are on portable hard drives with windows.

[bobcat62]

I’ve grown to prefer the macOS distribution. ;-)

[Paal Gulli]

There are roughly 400 actively-maintained Linuxes, plus another 200-ish that have been abandoned but that stalwarts still use (and that ignores all the Android derivatives), so figuring out all the relationships is only slightly less challenging than keeping track of the constantly expanding "family tree" of subatomic particles being discovered by CERN.

They left out Linux Mint, which is a fork of Ubuntu.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Fedora at home. Ubuntu on the work laptop, RHEL on the work cloud “desktop” at the end of the day it’s all pretty much the same to me cept for the package manager and the newness/oldness of the software and how much is available in the repos. Most of what I need I can build from source - although I did get stumped last night trying to get something to build.