Not Debian/Ubuntu Desktop

[Matt Graham]

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:39 PM, trent shipley 
> <trent.shipley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is a good, simple desktop oriented distro not derived from
>> Debian or Ubuntu? GnuCOBOL currently has a significant bug on Ubuntu
>> 14. (No. Red Hat and SUSE are not desktop oriented distros.)

What, precisely, do you mean by "desktop oriented distro"?  I wouldn't 
recommend SuSE for anything or anyone (it's too buggy), but CentOS 6 
with KDE has worked fine for me on a Dell box as a workstation-ish thing 
at work.  (I have been using Linux for a long time, though, so YMMV on 
this.)

At home, I use Gentoo, because there's no systemd requirement and 
upgrading is incremental instead of "guaranteed downtime while you 
reinstall the whole darn OS every couple of years."  Gentoo may not fit 
your criteria of "desktop oriented" though.

On 2015-01-05 20:04, Stephen Partington wrote:
> you could try the fedora "desktop" release

Fedora is not a stable thing.  As such, I wouldn't recommend it if 
you're going to be writing code.  The *last* thing you want when writing 
code is a system that's b0rked because update 2345 ate libxml2.so.2.9.2, 
which means most of your GUI desktop applications no longer work....

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