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which linux distro do you NOT like, and why? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 23 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I can find faults in any of them, but mostly hate working with Redhat/CentOS/Fedora. Strongly prefer Debian over Ubuntu, and I strongly prefer Gentoo over Arch. SUSE is an unknown, not sure about that one.

I have a fondness for BSD, if that matters.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I have fond memories of setting up a FreeBSD desktop while I was in college. It still has a warm place in my heart.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you don't mind me asking, what's the issue with Fedora? It doesn't have really old packages like RedHat or CentOS. And things are voted on by the community (yes RedHat has made proposals, but a lot of them fail).

    I mostly agree with you, on RHEL and CentOS tho and on Debian.

    Haven't tried Gentoo tho.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    From memory it has a different layout in /etc, /use, and /opt that kept tripping me up. Simple things seemed harder. I do a fair amount in older versions of Java that caused problems. It's been a while though, so things have likely changed.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    SUSE

    I have a bit of a fear of SLES, purely due to Puredisk using them as their base back in the day (before they were swallowed by Symantec/Veritas/Broadcom/whatever). The amount of time I spent in YaST2 and losing data, again and again, made me genuinely never want to investigate any issues.

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