My experience, Ubuntu: clunky, sometimes a pain in the butt, but generally looks after itself quite well Mint: similar to Ubuntu, a little more conservative about UI Crunchbang #!: fast/minimal, but a bit of a pain on very modern hardware, mostly because of its debian roots. Slightly higher maintenance load, very programmer/cli focused with good minimalism
Arch (in various forms): Great if you commit yourself to learning and using your OS every day for the rest of your life. You can control everything :) You have to control almost everything :(. You can make yourself a lightning fast programminng paradise. However it could take you so long to do this that you never get any programminng done! Others; ElementaryOS, Mandriva, Debian After spending quite alot of time with linux over the years I'm back to OSX. It has a good enough terminal, a good enough package manager (homebrew), and the other stuff just works (sometimes quite elegantly). Sometimes having choices made for you is good for you. On 26 May 2015 at 11:14, Sean Bamforth <[email protected]> wrote: > Ubuntu is the most popular distro, so probably the best option. > > If you just needed the CLI, then Amazon Web Services would be a good > option. You can spin up and destroy Linux servers as and when you use them. > > Personally - I use http://nitrous.io . It provides a web based linux cli > with an editor. > There's also > - terminal.com > - codenvy > > and a host of solutions that do things this way. > > > > Colin Kenyon wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I know this is not directly Ruby related, but a bit of advice would be >> welcome, and, I use the term respectfully, you're the probably the best >> informed geeks I know, not to mention the only ones!! >> >> I'm looking at installing Linux on my PC, and trying to figure out the >> best flavour. >> >> Ubuntu stands out, naturally. However, it occurs to me that there may be >> other platforms that could stick a GUI on top? >> >> I've used UNIX ages ago so I'm not afraid of the CLI, that's one of the >> considerations I'm looking at. I think that it could be useful to learn >> more about Linux by being able to use the CLI? >> >> Let's not worry about "how" I'm going to do this, just the "what" is good >> enough for now. >> >> For the record, I've got a 250MB SSD and a 2TB hard drive installed, >> running Win7. >> >> I considered reconfiguring so that the hard drive is C: and giving that >> to Windows, then letting Linux have the luxury of the SSD, but all that is >> a maybe. >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Colin Kenyon. >> >> > -- > Sean Bamforth > p: +44 (0)7802 653722 > w: http://threeparams.com > e: [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ------------------------ Andrew Premdas blog.andrew.premdas.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
