07-10-2016, 04:52 PM
I have been using Linux as my daily OS since 2000. I began with a boxed Suse Enterprise set, on an ASUS board with an over-clocked pentium433. Today there are so many choices of distro, that people coming to linux as new users are sometimes overwhelmed. When Kubuntu 12.04 became available it was the first distro that I recommended to friends and customers as a replacement, or alternative to windows. It had the best desktop and office suite in linux at the time. I have installed Linux Lite 2.8 on more than twenty different windows computers now, for friends, customers, etc. and the feedback from them has all been extremely positive. This is a great distro for windows converts.
Nowadays we have a flood of linux distros, many well liked by their users, but many of these opinions are not particularly well informed. What follows is my list of what I believe to be superior Linux operating systems for small business and home use, and most of the rest are not worth bothering with.
For new users, and Windows converts
1) Linux Lite....by far the simplest and most solid and stable utilization of XFCE available, faster and more user friendly than any other linux distro for new users.
2 )Kubuntu...still the most beautifully coded and conceived desktop available in linux
For innovation from old bones
1)NIXOS...its package manager speaks for itself
2)Porteus...real power on a stick
The very best with no apologies, and more of an eye to the future than any distro, just a different paradigm for making that future.
Debian8> with the KDE desktop.
Congratulations to Linux Lite for becoming one of the very best, in a sea of sometimes poorly conceived Canonical knockoffs. It is well deserved praise for a distro that is setting a very high standard in a niche that by all accounts will continue to expand.
Trinidad
Nowadays we have a flood of linux distros, many well liked by their users, but many of these opinions are not particularly well informed. What follows is my list of what I believe to be superior Linux operating systems for small business and home use, and most of the rest are not worth bothering with.
For new users, and Windows converts
1) Linux Lite....by far the simplest and most solid and stable utilization of XFCE available, faster and more user friendly than any other linux distro for new users.
2 )Kubuntu...still the most beautifully coded and conceived desktop available in linux
For innovation from old bones
1)NIXOS...its package manager speaks for itself
2)Porteus...real power on a stick
The very best with no apologies, and more of an eye to the future than any distro, just a different paradigm for making that future.
Debian8> with the KDE desktop.
Congratulations to Linux Lite for becoming one of the very best, in a sea of sometimes poorly conceived Canonical knockoffs. It is well deserved praise for a distro that is setting a very high standard in a niche that by all accounts will continue to expand.
Trinidad
All opinions expressed and all advice given by Trinidad Cruz on this forum are his responsibility alone and do not necessarily reflect the views or methods of the developers of Linux Lite. He is a citizen of the United States where it is acceptable to occasionally be uninformed and inept as long as you pay your taxes.