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1 • No preference, absolutely. (by Otto Ouster on 2020-02-03 00:45:39 GMT from Canada)
I have voted no preference, as a matter of fact I have tried almost all sort of distro,
and ended-up discarded distro from archiveOS which do not serve any other specific purpose, but, it does serve my minimal purpose. I have used Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu(s), PCLOS, MX/ANTIX, Debian, Devuan, Tails, Void and many others.
As long as it works out-of-the box, I have absolutely no preference(s) either for systemd or init, even for any DE(s).
May be, I am the only one here who has absolutely no preferences at all.
2 • Special-purpose vs. general-purpose Linux distributions. (by R. Cain on 2020-02-03 00:47:31 GMT from United States)
Why in the *WORLD* would someone choose to be absolutely constrained by a special-purpose distribution? Talk about placing all your faith in the distro developers! As the British would say: "...a fool's errand...".
3 • Special-purpose vs. .... (by R. Cain on 2020-02-03 00:58:48 GMT from United States)
...forgot to add that, as of right now, "I prefer a single focus distro" stands at 3%.
That's where it will end... and that's too high.
4 • single focus distros only work when... (by greenpossum on 2020-02-03 01:15:22 GMT from Australia)
The intended use is narrow, like firewall, NAS, VPN, and it just works out of the box. Maybe even headless and operated by a web interface. Otherwise eventually they accumulate features and then why didn't they just use a GP distro in the first place. When these projects fade they leave behind orphaned users. Better for the effort to have been put into customisations for existing distros. Devs, please ask yourselves before launching yet another distro, does the world need it, especially if it's just a respin of an existing one?
5 • single focus distro (by Ted on 2020-02-03 01:26:38 GMT from Australia)
I only use KDE+qt on a 64 bit processor, so I want a distro that offers a well setup, curated experience for that.
6 • Poll Question Musing (by A.F. on 2020-02-03 01:40:13 GMT from United States)
I suspect that this week's subject of review will act as a red-herring for a lot of responses to this week's poll. A desktop OS/distro is meant to be a platform for the user's other work or tasks. Whether you're using a general-purpose desktop distro (your Debians and Ubuntus of the world), or something that's very obviously tailored to a certain hardware platform, desktop layout, internal architecture, or even just its own personality (your KaOSs and NixOSs, Peppermints and Puppys), at the end of the day that distro still has to accommodate all of the workflow tasks that a user may need. I'm sure many fans of this-or-that distro will (quite justifiably!) disagree with this, but: once you get out from under the hood, a lot of these distros tend to be very homogenized, because as an operating system, that software is acting as a canvas for other tasks, rather than a task unto itself.
As a result, the way this poll is phrased, it's hard not to see it as a leading question: unless a user knows exactly what workflow or environment they want, and on what platform they need it, it's hard to justify a distro that only accommodates one hyper-specific use case, when so many others can accommodate that scenario plus many others. The trouble is, any power user who's so confident (or, depending on your perspective, picky) about what they want will probably also have the expertise needed to modify their system to suit their needs. Hence, the enduring popularity of distros like Arch and Gentoo (which are so vague as distros that you'd be hard pressed to find two identical users of either), even when other projects seek to take their work and simplify or pre-package it. To take one popular example, Manjaro makes Arch much easier to use, but it also cuts away some of its parent's raison d'etre, its KISS-ness and customizability, in the process.
I would suggest, then, that it's more productive to use/discuss "single-focus" distros not in terms of their installation applicability (except in cases where there really is a specialized need, such as supporting old/nonstandard architectures), but rather in terms of their actual use case: for unique projects such as embedded tasks, network storage, thin clients, and the like. Distros such as Alpine or WebConverger justify themselves by serving specific tasks, and are a vital part of the Linux ecosystem.
A specialized-desktop distro like KaOS, on the other hand, is at the mercy of the user's tastes being compatible with its creator's. It justifies itself to its own developers, who make that distro "in their own image," and the fact that such a project can exist exemplifies just why the Linux ecosystem is still so valuable in this day and age of lowest-common-denominator computing. Still, the side effect of that personalized project is that its reach will likely be limited to the devs themselves, plus a few odd users/distro-hoppers here and there.
7 • What ever (by Otto Ouster on 2020-02-03 01:55:22 GMT from Canada)
Butter Pecen, Chocolate chips, Pistachio, Strawberry or Raspberry does not matter for those who prefers plain vanilla. Exactly same as-in for GNULinux/FreeBSD, Enterprise/Desktop, KDE/GNOME, Mate/XFCE/LXDE, GCC/Clang or X/No-X or what so ever.
8 • single purpose vs general purpose (by Jeff on 2020-02-03 02:24:04 GMT from United States)
For all around use obviously general purpose, but that does not mean a single purpose distro is useless.
Gparted, Clonezilla, Tails (or Heads), Puppy...
Single purpose distros when you need one specific thing done they are the best tool for the job.
9 • Never needs winding never needs winding (by Trihexagonal on 2020-02-03 02:36:42 GMT from United States)
While FreeBSD may be considered for use as a server, firewall, etc. it fits my needs best as a desktop OS. When installed on a Thinkpad X61 makes the best dedicated .mp3 player I've ever had.
10 • Single focus v general purpose @8 (by pengxuin on 2020-02-03 03:56:35 GMT from New Zealand)
agree
single focus for a specific task - Clonezilla specifically.
otherwise GP for everyday computing. (web browsing, music / video playback or editing / processing, document creation.)
desktop agnostic, whatever the day brings ;-)
11 • EarlyOOM (by Andy Figueroa on 2020-02-03 05:04:44 GMT from United States)
Out of memory issues: really? I'm a Gentoo user, and I've installed and maintained Gentoo on low memory systems, as low as 512M, and occasionally used a little bit of swap, but never ran out of memory. If one has enough RAM (2 GB for most), it won't ever swap to disk. I think this is a non-problem. Admittedly, I'm currently running 16 GB, with 3 GB free, and if I do heavy compiling, it still never swaps to disk. Linux kernel has excellent memory management if left to default settings.
12 • Linux Kernel (by Otto Ouster on 2020-02-03 06:02:44 GMT from Canada)
Linux Kernel - 5.6
In addition to connectionless protocol, WireGuard VPN protocol is being merged into linux mainline kernel as a kernel-networking-tunnel operator as a companion to UDP.
13 • Linux kernel perfect fit for IoT Devices. (by Otto Ouster on 2020-02-03 07:58:14 GMT from Canada)
Latest Linux kernels with embedded broadcom-sta, zero-conf networking, systemd, wayland client and server, tons of tcp/ip protocols, UDP, and WireGuard VPN protocol makes it well-equipped & perfect-fit for IoT devices.
With latest Linux Kernel, users can get rid-off network manager completely.
I hope, it will be perfectly alright and in-line with European Data Protection Regulations and Data Protection Regulations in some other countries.
14 • Single or dual purpose (by Jim on 2020-02-03 10:50:30 GMT from United States)
I install dual purpose distros, but keep single purpose like Parted Magic and Ubuntu "boot-repair-disk" in my arsenal.
15 • I prefer General Purpose distros (by TuxRaider on 2020-02-03 14:59:38 GMT from United States)
i can always git the newest packages from github and build any specific software i like to focus on, like SDR radio software, i have the newest builds running, the only special purpose SDR radio distro is Skywave Linux which is basically ubuntu 16.04 with older SDR software installed, and i dont think the developers of Skywave linux has built a new ISO with an updated Linux distro and the newest SDR packages in several years, besides that i dont like depending on somebody else to put it all together for me if i dont actually have to
16 • Distro Focus (by Ken Harbit on 2020-02-03 15:44:18 GMT from United States)
I voted for general simply because it fills my need, which is a desktop that can handle any kind of document and email/web connection. But if you have a specific need, and there is a distro focused on that need, by all means use and support the focused distro. Having all these disros, both general and focused, is one of the things that make Linux great. If one distro doesn't do it for you, do some research, find one that does what you want then support it. So, the question is missing a checkbox, it needs one that says "The Linux world needs both."
17 • Distos should be good at what they do (by Dxvid on 2020-02-03 16:51:25 GMT from Sweden)
I prefer if distro's are good at what they do. It's better to do a few things well than to do everything halfhearted. If I select KDE or Gnome or LxQt I want everything to run smoothly and optimized for that environment. If I run on ARM or POWER instead of Intel/AMD, I expect everything to run perfectly on that CPU arch. If providing Wayland, make sure it works first. If distro maintainers aren't able to provide this, then don't waste our time trying out for countless hours finding support is limited. It's better to be good at what you do than to provide everything halfhearted. I selected middle ground because of this. However I really only genuinely like distros who provide a lot of choice, and do it well at the same time. So I stick with the big ones: OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and sometimes if needed i use RedHat or Debian if the customer requires it.
18 • Special purpose distros are needed. (by Garon on 2020-02-03 17:24:12 GMT from United States)
Contary to what some others may say, general purpose distros, can for the most part, not do it all. Only someone on a "fool's errand" would believe a GP distro could do it all very well. I'm sure some may come close. I do use a GP distro for my daily computing needs but sometimes nothing but a specialized distro will do the job I need. I dare say that is what most people do. Futhermore there is nothing wrong with a person wanting to stick to a certain platform like KDE or Gnome or even headless. That's what is so great about being in this eco system. All the choices.
19 • General and task-specific (by Gary on 2020-02-03 19:17:00 GMT from United States)
Since most people I have contact with are still using Windows or are new-bees to Linux, I use a general purpose distro. There are several desktops I prefer over others such as KDE and Cinnamon. The task specific type distros that I use regularly are Clonezilla and GParted.
20 • General purpose distro (by voidpin on 2020-02-03 19:42:29 GMT from Sweden)
I voted general purpose but, actually this is not the whole true.
I only use systems that provide a base-install, no DE. I don't want a DE, just a tiling WM and then configure my system with my own choice of applications.
21 • Dealing with low-memory performance (by John Crawford on 2020-02-03 19:49:26 GMT from United States)
I use Xubuntu and have to watch pretty carefully that my old system with 4 gigabytes of memory doesn't consume all memory, as well as all swap, when I have multiple Firefox tabs open. I don't understand why there has been a movement in recent years to reduce the size of, or even eliminate, swap partitions. Is it just based on the performance hit from using swap? Personally, I need tens of gigabytes of swap to prevent my system from becoming completely unresponsive.
22 • xPUD (by Justin on 2020-02-03 20:05:38 GMT from India)
xPUD was one of my favorite single-purpose distros. It was very lean, both in ISO size and RAM usage, and did what I needed it to do. It was designed for netbook users, but I found it useful for VMs and a portable OS when visiting friends. There is something appealing about distros that do so much with little. At the time I was also into Puppy, DSL, and later TCL and Slitaz.
Unfortunately, times change and these types of distros either get heavy or get unsupported (TCL is still around, but its software packaging makes it a non-starter). I loved xPUD's interface and wish I could create a spin of it with just updated packages (e.g., the latest Firefox). Trying to make my own kiosk spins just aren't the same, and kiosk distros are too limiting (I don't need public use).
It reminds me of other projects like Xombrero. That was an OpenBSD attempt at writing a browser that was so small, more secure, better/simpler privacy controls, etc., that I would have made it my daily driver... if it hadn't been discarded a few years before I found it.
I guess if you're going to make your own special-purpose distro, at least leave an easy recipe for people to replicate your work. I don't mean publish a repo on github, have some convoluted magic scripts that you run. I mean make a recipe. Work on your build system early and then make that available. Do yourself that favor by thinking about your own maintenance burden and keep it small.
23 • memory usage by distros (by Fred on 2020-02-03 21:26:18 GMT from New Zealand)
RAM is cheap. Even low-level old machines I find being sold in my area used have 4GB. The occasional one has 2GB, but those are a joke anyway. I have 8GB of which 6 mostly sit there and sleep. This is very unlike W7/W10 where memory gets sucked up for all sorts of nonsense. With Linux I am always pleasantly surprised at memory usage into 700-1100MB range, even with a couple of apps open. So that fits without issue even on the lowest rung laptops having 2GB.
Now what would you fellow readers do in the opposite scenario - say a machine with 16GB or even 64GB of RAM, running any one of today's memory-efficient Linux distros?
24 • Mostly General, & Some Tailored To The Task Distros (by M.Z. on 2020-02-04 00:31:16 GMT from United States)
I chose the middle ground option, because I use some fairly general purpose distors like Mageia & to a lesser extent Mint (which is very focused on the desktop & a bit Gtk focused for programs), & then sometimes I use a very specific distro for a firewall OS. If you have a specific task for a specific pice of hardware or want to multi-boot a computer to do one specific thing some of the time I think it could be a lot smarter & easier to explore a few purpose built distros. It could save time & create far better results than fighting to configure a general distro to do a specific thing less well than a pre configured alternative would have done it.
25 • My personal choices and flavors. (by Otto Ouster on 2020-02-04 06:28:23 GMT from Canada)
n latest or decent hardwares, I prefer:
PCLOS -> KDE (somehow get PCLOS link was not working last time!) - Mirrors were OK.)
CentOS/Ubuntu -> GNOME
LinuxMint -> Cinnamon
Devuan/MX -> XFCE
Debian -> XFCE/LXQT
OpenMandriva -> KDE Plasma - Clang compile is bit faster distro.
Antix -> IceWM/JWM/Fluxbox
Gento -> Many Flavors - Robust Distro.
Puppy -> Many Endless Cute Flavors.
My current hardware does not like what I like.
Second, How hard or How easy it is to convert GP Disto(s) into Specialized ones, or, a specialized distro into GP one?
26 • Did I just forget Slackware? (by Otto Ouste on 2020-02-04 06:38:06 GMT from Canada)
Yes, Slackware mostly XFCE.
A very few derivative(s) of Slackware has multiple choices of DEs, but, they are fast enough.
27 • middle grounds..? (by fonz on 2020-02-04 17:19:02 GMT from Indonesia)
voted for middle grounds, since i think my preferred choice of using debian testing cd xfce covers (all?) major platforms, and starts us off with a minimal working gui with not a lot of stuff installed. sure i did some cleanup after that, but its been years since ive last felt like installing an os. modern distros IMHO tend to offer too much fluff.
28 • * (by Cynic on 2020-02-06 06:36:41 GMT from Ghana)
@26 - Not sure what exactly that means.. XFCE, KDE, and about 5 window managers come with Slackware by default..
Only reason(s) it doesn't have gnome:
1. They don't have "stable" releases - and even if they "do", they require constant patching which doesn't fit the Slackware focus on stability.
2. They made the choice to jump on the SystemD bandwagon, with no regard for init systems. (I say init systems because SystemD does far too much to fall into that category alone.)
It was a very anti-*NIX decision..
There is a project called dlackware which offers gnome and SystemD but I have never used it.. nor to I know anyone who does.
@Topic of Specialized OSs:
It boils down to the same question every developer (myself included) must ask when releasing almost any piece of software:
" Am I reinventing the wheel or am I providing a solution no one has either thought of or publicly released? "
My question would be how this differs in concept of a KDE/QT showcase more than Neon itself..
I would also wonder why in a world of choice, the concept behind the distro in question seems to be that a reduction in said choice is the "answer".
If KDE wasn't included in Slackware by default I would have stopped using it entirely by 3.2.something. QT (imo) is far too plastic and glossed for my liking, and I'm not a huge fan of large all-inclusive suites. That being said, I know many are and as such I would never make software which prevents, hides, or disables the choice to install well.. anything?
Gparted, systemrescueCD, Kali, tails, all examples of perfectly viable specialized OS's.
This system.. unless they make GTK an option.. most likely will be unsustainable due to simple user frustration.
29 • distro reviews - thank you (by David on 2020-02-07 00:50:18 GMT from New Zealand)
I continue to be amazed that every week you guys (mostly Jesse it seems) do quite an in-depth review of a distro. These are very helpful and an interesting read. The issues, shortfalls and caveats are numerous and help us the readers understand what lies ahead. Hopefully too, the distro teams read these, and make improvements!
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View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
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| Random Distribution | 
VLOS
VLOS (Vidalinux Desktop OS) was a powerfull, stable and easy-to-use Linux distribution. The desktop components are based on the best projects of the open source community including the GNOME desktop environment, Firefox browser, Evolution mail and calendar client, Gentoo Linux system and portage package manager. VLOS includes additional multimedia and productivity applications for the home user including media players, browser plugins for Flash, RealPlayer, PDF viewer, media, graphics design and administration tools.
Status: Discontinued
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| TUXEDO |
TUXEDO Computers - Linux Hardware in a tailor made suite
Choose from a wide range of laptops and PCs in various sizes and shapes at TUXEDOComputers.com. Every machine comes pre-installed and ready-to-run with Linux. Full 24 months of warranty and lifetime support included!
Learn more about our full service package and all benefits from buying at TUXEDO.
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| Star Labs |
Star Labs - Laptops built for Linux.
View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
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