[GRLUG] distros, DE's, etc.

[Collin]

It's in the official repository for archlinux. ;-) Come to the dark side....

Topher wrote:
> This is mostly about how I choose a distro, with thoughts thrown in about 
> Desktop Environments, etc.
>
> As mentioned, I run Enlightenment (DR16 to be specific).  I don't know of 
> any mainstream distros that make it available in their package system (I 
> haven't looked in a while though).  I also don't know of any mainstream 
> distros that *prefer* to run something other than KDE or Gnome.  They're 
> very intent on making a windows-like system.
>
> Since I don't get into that, *any* distro I use is going to get torn apart 
> and re-configured the way I like it.  That nullifies most "default" and 
> "out of the box" settings *except* for hardware detection.
>
> So what I look for in a distro is good hardware detection and having 
> modern libraries and such, so that I can still install whatever I want, 
> even if I have to compile it.
>
> That levels the playing field a lot.  Suse, Fedora, Mandriva, CentOS; 
> they're all redhat originated, rpm based systems.  I'm going to turn off 
> Gnome and KDE in all of them, get mp3 playback working in all of them, 
> etc.  At that point, what's the difference?
>
> Topher
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