Your preferred Linux distribution for 2013?
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Despite all of the complaining about it... (Score:5, Insightful)
Other - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Score:5, Insightful)
Other: Android (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Other - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Score:5, Insightful)
Check it out?
no thanks. It has the word 'Oracle' at the front.
I'll stick with CentOS and RHEL thanks.
Re:Despite all of the complaining about it... (Score:2, Insightful)
few need to leave?
Hmmm I wonder why most of my friends who were Ubuntu fans have moved to Mint/Debian or even Fedora?
Ah yes... Unity. That's what broke the camels back for many of them.
No RHEL/CentOS? (Score:5, Insightful)
Gentoo (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Windows 8 (Score:5, Insightful)
said no one ever
Re:Despite all of the complaining about it... (Score:4, Insightful)
"sudo" as opposed to what ?
The question shouldn't be what else to use for privilege escalation, but how to avoid privilege escalation in the first place.
I'd rather have the system yell at me for having forgotten "sudo" than yell at me for having wiped a partition by adding a space in "rm -rf / test"
I'd rather not risk my system being compromised because I ran a superuser command within the login context and environment of a user.
I'd rather have uid/euid report what they're supposed to.
I'd rather be able to use selinux and cgroups in a meaningful way.
But most of all, I want apps to be designed and installed to reduce the need for privilege escalations.
Re:Gentoo (Score:5, Insightful)
I continue to use Gentoo, and have used it for a number of years. Only complaint I have with Gentoo is that if you keep updating it regularly (and use the cutting edge version....ie: ~x86), there are really bad periods where the machine will not update and things break because the Gentoo developers haven't yet gotten together to make everything play nice with each other because of a 'debatable' change they put in. Usually, though, once I get that sorted, it stays working for a really long time.
I wish the Gentoo Developers would understand that causing the System to 'break' before they work out their software/portage issues really isn't acceptable to their users.
Re:Despite all of the complaining about it... (Score:5, Insightful)
...Ubuntu is still the easiest and most reliable for new users and works well enough for them that few need to leave.
This is probably true. But the "for new users" part is a problem. Some years back Ubuntu managed to please both new *and* advanced users. Sure some people compiled things themselves, but others decided they had seen enough xorg.conf et cetera, and just used Ubuntu instead.
Earlier versions of Ubuntu had broad appeal and apparently succeeded simply because they were good and balanced. After using Unity since April, I feel like Ubuntu is now serving some kind of user who is not me.