<p dir="ltr">Centos 7 desktop is different beast from centos 6. You really do have to add the epel, elrepo and <a href="http://li.nux.ro">li.nux.ro</a> desktop repos to get a really good desktop environment. I have several running on older iMac hardware in my student lab. The kids whine for windows desktops but I only provide Linux because the computational cluster runs Linux.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 1, 2015 12:27 PM, "LnxGnome" <<a href="mailto:lnxgnome@hopnet.net">lnxgnome@hopnet.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Edward,<br>
<br>
I recently changed distros for my desktop. I'm now using Fedora 21
(Gnome). It's really my first time using Fedora for an extended
period, and I'm liking it pretty well.<br>
<br>
I had been using OpenSuSE for many years (14ish). I tried updating
from 12.3 to 13.2, and wound up with an unbootable system, due to a)
using fakeraid/striping for my boot disks, and b) bugs related to
that in the init that prevents it from mounting /. I might try 13.3
again when it comes out, but 13.2 is DOA as far as I'm concerned. <br>
<br>
Before moving to Fedora, I tried Ubuntu's last Desktop LTS and the
latest Linux Mint. Both have problems similar to OpenSuSE (but not
identical) with fakeraid/striping. However, they will fail to mount
/ even when installed on a standalone disk, if a striped/fakeraid
disk set exists on the system. That's fubar.<br>
<br>
So, next was CentOS7. It just isn't ready for prime-time as a
desktop OS yet (compared to CentOS6 or OpenSuSE).<br>
<br>
That left me looking at Slackware and Fedora. I picked Fedora for
"ease of use" (with many memories of installing Slackware from a
stack of 23 floppy disks....), and almost three weeks later, I'm
still using it.<br>
<br>
Disclaimer: for the past year, my other desktop has been a mac with
OS X 10 (code named "redundant"). I have CentOS 6 on most of my
servers, with a couple running Oracle EL6 and OVM3.<br>
<br>
--LnxGnome<br>
<br>
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<div>On 2/28/15 7:19 PM, Edward James
Monson, II wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>I've been using various flavors of Ubuntu for about 5 years,
and I'm ready to try something new. I'm fairly comfortable
with the command line. I'm curious what distributions people
on this list use, and how they rate in difficulty compared to
Ubuntu. I'd also prefer to use something a lot of other people
use so I have more people I can run to for help. :)</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Thanks, and nice to meet you,</p>
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</p>
<p>Edward<br>
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