IBM acquires Red Hat

Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by int_19h on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:48PM (#18323082)

Try vanilla Debian. I really don't get the fascination with Ubuntu - modern Debian does all the same things, and in many cases it does it better (saner defaults, less opinionated).

And if one really needs a "one click out of the box" desktop distro, then Mint.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by mr_toad on Sunday October 28, 2018 @08:35PM (#18324112)

My guess is that people tend to favour the OS they ‘grew up’ with.

Ubuntu made big inroads on the desktop in the early 2000’s, and now those people are running their own infrastructure.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by johnny22 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:04PM (#18324460)

you say opionated like it's a bad thing. Opinionated is exactly why I use Fedora.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by int_19h on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:49PM (#18324921)

It can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how closely it matches your opinion.

Conversely, non-opinionated might not be good, but it's guaranteed to be not bad.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by johnny22 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:10PM (#18351181)

I agree with the first, but on the second, I'd rather switch to a different system that more closely matches my opinion.

I've been doing this crap way too long to want to configure everything myself.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by chimpburger on Sunday October 28, 2018 @09:14PM (#18324255)

Mint is based on Ubuntu. There is a version of Mint based on Debian but that is experimental.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by int_19h on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:52PM (#18324933)

LMDE has been around for several years now. IMO, it's "experimental" in the same way many Google services are "beta". Which is to say, in practice, it works just fine.

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