Mostly it is just a personal preference. Sometimes it is related to the
window manager. Sometimes it is the package manager. There are a number of
reasons.
I personally am torn between arch and Ubuntu (especially with their lite
install option) I like both for different reasons. I have been considering
moving to arch on my laptop.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 12:04 PM Aaron Jones <
retro64xyz@gmail.com> wrote:
> To entertain all the people who can't do Arch.
>
> Le Troll Face.jpeg here
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:29 AM Stephen Elliott <tnflyfisher@live.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What is the purpose of all these different distros?
>>
>>
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>> > Message: 1
>> > Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 15:15:37 +0100 (CET)
>> > From: Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com>
>> > To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
>> > Subject: Re: Phoenix Linux
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>> > On 3/1/19 6:18 PM, der.hans wrote:
>> >> moin moin,
>> >>
>> >> I have seen references to this, but for the first time went and looked.
>> >>
>> >> Phoenix Linux - based on lubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphoenixlinux.weebly.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C763b23d1df1b4e6336a108d6a00a7265%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636872364060787903&sdata=gbDmb4Xv3bBpMO%2By4qtTA2sPhge2s82e39Mx3Daj%2F0M%3D&reserved=0
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone tried it?
>> >>
>> >> ciao,
>> >>
>> >> der.hans
>> >
>> > I haven't tried it, but it looks like a hobby respin of Lubuntu, but
>> > with none of the support (and lagging behind upstream by a significant
>> > margin).
>> >
>> > Hobby distros, especially hobby respins, are a tough sell for me because
>> > of the lack of support. I'd normally prefer to stick to upstream (in
>> > this case, Lubuntu).
>> >
>> > The same person responsible for Phoenix also makes Feren OS, which is
>> > based off of Linux Mint (and in the process of rebasing to Ubuntu LTS).
>> > Feren is relatively well received and does have a support structure, and
>> > looks fairly nice.
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