[ale] Recommendations for my next distro?

[DJ-Pfulio]

I'm curious - why use fakeraid at all?
The downsides seem to vastly outweigh any upsides don't they?
Or am I missing something?


On 03/01/2015 12:18 PM, LnxGnome wrote:
> Hi Edward,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> So, next was CentOS7.  It just isn't ready for prime-time as a desktop OS yet
> (compared to CentOS6 or OpenSuSE).
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> --LnxGnome
> 
> 
> On 2/28/15 7:19 PM, Edward James Monson, II wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> 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. :)
>>
>>
>> Thanks, and nice to meet you,
>>
>>