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Originally Posted by problemchild
Ahh a fanboy chimes in. Here in lies the problem with Linux. Instead of focusing the coding power to 3-4 top running versions you have the fanboys fighting over "1000+" (fanboy ranting) 16+ (real number) group versions and No One version can ever be agreed upon. Just plain --->stupid!!!
The above nonsense was the thing that kept me from switching to linux for over 10 years. The fanboys fight amongst themselves disagreeing on everything. Its near impossible to find a good review of any linux version because the fanboyz will always bash whatever you post in a positive light as witnessed in the above post. You can never have a good opinion about any linux version without getting flamed.
In reality you actually have the following 16+ " group based" linux versions to choose from. I installed and ran the best/top 2-3 from each group. No point installing every single copy of each group when some are not even maintained anymore and run like chit.
Arch Linux based
Debian-based
Knoppix-based
Ubuntu-based
Other Debian-based
Gentoo-basedMandriva-based
openSUSE-based
Red Hat Linux
Fedora-based
Slackware-based
Other (Linux-based)
Mac OS X-based
Microsoft Windows-based
OpenSolaris-based
Other operating systems-based
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Linux fanboy my *** goddammit.
You worded your title like there were a LOT of them and you finally tried them all out. :\
I am new to Linux myself but when I go to distrowatch and see this:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20131216
Then scroll part way down and see this quote:
"DistroWatch database summary
•Number of all distributions in the database: 766
•Number of active distributions in the database: 296
•Number of dormant distributions: 54
•Number of discontinued distributions: 416
•Number of distributions on the waiting list: 338"
I am sure you can see where a noob such as myself would easily see that there are over 1000+ variations based on these numbers. AND this is not counting the various desktops that you can also use. So if a distro has 5 desktops does it make it 5 versions now? Perhaps you should have stated your control and what constitutes a "version" and how different desktops play into it. I like to load them all up too but I am only on 177 and that damn site keeps changing the list on me so it is hard to grab them and stay current...