Distro recommendation

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:54:42 +0200
Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't want to start a Distro war, but ...
> 
> I've been on Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia for over 17!!!! years, but from
> what I've read, there are quite a few problems with Mageia 6 (I'm
> still on 5), and it's really strange that it's been 2 years in the
> making.
> 
> So I'm thinking about abandoning ship. 
> 
> I definitely want to stay with KDE (never liked Gnome) and I really
> like how configurable Mageia is.

Have you considered other WMDEs (Window Manager/Desktop Environments)?
Many excellent ones exist.

> I don't think this should be an issue, but my computer is fairly old
> (a 4 year old i5 Haswell CPU with 8 Gb).

I have Void Linux running on my 2006 2GB RAM dualcore Acer laptop,
using the LXDE WMDE, and except for starting programs, this thing's
pretty snappy. Youtube on Firefox 57 runs without a stutter on a slow
wifi.

> I've been thinking about Mint, Kubuntu or Fedora - any thoughts (or
> additional options)?

Void Linux. Efficient, stable, easy to understand and administer
without graphical config tools.

By the way, whatever distro you get, you should install dmenu, make a
wrapper script to change it to a vertical menu, and set an easy hotkey
to it. Fastest way to run programs.

HTH,

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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