<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I like to go with Fedora MATE spin as I find it resource friendly.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">and I use compiz as my window manager to have a very robust features and some eye candy features as well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Fedora move fast and have a short release cycle (6 month), <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">so having to deal with new stuff each 6 month can be a burden for someone how just want his computer to work.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">in that case I'll recommend a distro which is based on Ubuntu LTS e,g Ubuntu MATE.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">MATE desktop dose not support HiDPI display yet, unlike KDE and Gnome3 <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">but if you prefer to use KDE, both Fedoa and Ubuntu have a spin of it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">there is also KDE neon which uses a stable base of the OS (Ubuntu LTS IIRC),</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">and all the KDE stuff are coming directly from upstream (rolling)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_5819305979114280232gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">--<br>Rabin</span></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2017 at 09:54, Shlomo Solomon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomo.solomon@gmail.com" target="_blank">shlomo.solomon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't want to start a Distro war, but ...<br>
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I've been on Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia for over 17!!!! years, but from<br>
what I've read, there are quite a few problems with Mageia 6 (I'm<br>
still on 5), and it's really strange that it's been 2 years in the<br>
making.<br>
<br>
So I'm thinking about abandoning ship.<br>
<br>
I definitely want to stay with KDE (never liked Gnome) and I really<br>
like how configurable Mageia is.<br>
<br>
I don't think this should be an issue, but my computer is fairly old (a<br>
4 year old i5 Haswell CPU with 8 Gb).<br>
<br>
I've been thinking about Mint, Kubuntu or Fedora - any thoughts (or<br>
additional options)?<br>
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Shlomo Solomon<br>
<a href="http://the-solomons.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://the-solomons.net</a><br>
Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.14.30 - Dolphin 4.14.3 - LINUX Mageia 5<br>
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