[ale] Recommendations for my next distro?

[LnxGnome]

Yes, it was quite different.  I did have EPEL, but I've been burned by 
repo conflicts in the past (not CentOS 7), so I don't typically add 
multiple repos, unless they are app specific (i.e. google-earth repo).

I've come across elrepo before, but not li.nux.ro.

Do you have a preferred config (kickstart files anyone?) for a CentOS 7 
Desktop?

On 3/1/15 12:54 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Centos 7 desktop is different beast from centos 6. You really do have 
> to add the epel, elrepo and li.nux.ro <http://li.nux.ro> 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.
>
> On Mar 1, 2015 12:27 PM, "LnxGnome" <lnxgnome at hopnet.net 
> <mailto:lnxgnome at hopnet.net>> 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,
>>
>>
>>     Edward
>>
>>
>>
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