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   Message 6,054 of 8,232   
   Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro   
   Re: Linux Daily?   
   28 Jul 19 12:45:00   
   
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   -=> On 07-27-19 13:54, Eric Renfro wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    ER> Heh yeah. It's funny, for me, I hated Red Hat back then. I actually had   
    ER> preferred Debian and actually more than that, I preferred SUSE. I think   
      
   I never liked SUSE for some reason.  Can't recall why now, but it wasn't my cup   
   of tea.   
      
    ER> ultimately what I'm going to end up with is either sticking hard on   
    ER> Fedora, which I've actually liked since Fedora 18 and up, or with   
    ER> Xubuntu, which I hate trying to maintain packages for, and do need to   
    ER> for a small few things (SyncTERM for example)... It really depends.   
    ER> There's a few things I definitely really must have, and that's   
    ER> reasonably up-to-date browsers, reasonably up-to-date video driver   
    ER> support, moderate printer support (I currently have a semi-modern HP   
    ER> printer which requires a minimum version of hpcups to use it, which was   
    ER> not in Ubuntu 16.04), and some specific programs like zssh. Because, I   
    ER> like my zmodem over ssh, which I miss with not having konsole from KDE.   
      
      
   Yeah the good thing about Linux is there's a lot of choice. :)   
      
    ER> Now, I'd mentioned SUSE, but not in current days. openSUSE has let me   
    ER> down way too much in the later years. With a lot of their dirty little   
    ER> hacks, like their "Druid" replacement for virt-manager's VM "Wizard",   
    ER> which they only fairly recently finally removed after all these years.   
    ER> Their default setup for open-files limit which breaks any modern   
    ER> browser today, and just.... their reliance on btrfs for things like   
    ER> snapshots and the ability to roll back changes, stuff that yum and dnf   
    ER> had had without filesystem level snapshots for years.   
      
   Yeah, I tried SUSE before the OpenSUSE days, but even then I wasn't keen on it.   
      
      
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