<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Doug Moen wrote in the other thread:<br><br><blockquote>I used to run OpenBSD and then FreeBSD in the mid nineties. (Linux was junk back then.)<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote>I
ultimately switched to Linux because it is more popular. Far more open
source packages are tested and run on Linux than on BSD.<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote>For
the same reason I switched to Linux, I also want to use the most
popular Linux distro, for maximum compatibility, and so that I'll have
access to the largest number of free software packages.<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote>According
to John's diagram, Debian is the most important/influential distro.
More distros are descended from Debian than anything else. Ubuntu is the
most important/influential direct descendent of Debian.<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote>I
use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, for the same reasons that Khalid posted. For me,
one of the killer features of Ubuntu is that it supports ZFS, which is
the most reliable file system. I don't know any other distro that
supports ZFS as a core package, other than FreeBSD.<br></blockquote><br></div>I agree with the reasoning: you want the distro that has the most packages in their repositories. Debian is that distro. Ubuntu is just an easier to install/configure descendant of that vast ecosystem. Their schedule for LTS versions is about the right pace.<br><br>The same goes for Raspberry Pi: there are faster and cheaper boards out there, and I have seen people rush to buy them, only to find out quickly that there is no community to go for help as often needed, no updates to things they are using, no packages that they need ....etc. <br><br>The other thing is the Debian's dependency management is arguably the oldest and most proven in Linuxland. I remember the days of searching for rpms and then dependency hell when I was using Mandrake/Mandriva. All that is behind us now. No more searching the internet for .debs. It is all in the repositories. <br><br></div>As for Fedora, it experimental bleeding edge in nature: a testing ground for RedHat. I would not use it as my main desktop. <br><br></div><br></div>