Not Debian/Ubuntu Desktop

[Stephen Partington]

I would have to say, pick something stable that doesn't change much, go
with that. Personally for dev environments i prefer VM's because you can
snapshot them and revert anytime you want so you can let your code eat the
VM, see what it did, and then revert and fix whatever needs fixing and try
again.

Centos is the epitome of not changing much. and that would suggest it meets
whatever you need. Just as a desktop environment of choice and you are
ready to go.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> 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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