Linux lovers
 

The Raspberry PI guys have built a distro, based on Debian, for desktops / laptops.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pixel-pc-mac/

Seems they put a heavy emphasis on supporting old low powered, by todays standards, desktops and laptops.

Still in development so only runs as Live CD / USB drive, no installer. But they do have a switch for persistence so you can run it and save changes from boot to boot.

I fired it up virtualized using Debian 7 as the base target, worked great.

Cool. I may have give it a try. Ive been using Tahrpup for 2 years and its going to be hard to beat that.

Ubuntu has been great to me.

Started hating ubuntu 5 or so years ago when they let the udev system start changing the name of your network adapter based on its mac address. Granted my use case is fairly uncommon - my students install Linux to external USB drives so they can boot off USB on any computer and have a full system. No, a live DVD won't work - they need to create VMs in virtual box, install apps, change settings, etc. Then the gnome3/unity crap started.

Been very happy with Mint. Latest version runs fine on 7+ year old hardware, although the 10 year old desktop I have at work is starting to show its teeth - mainly in that while it is a 64bit cpu, it can't virtualize a 64bit system for me.

Servers have been Debian for 15 years, ain't planning on switching...

I'm not sure I buy the idea of yet another distro with GUI.. There are over 100 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions)

..and many of them have been out for years, This PIXEL is very 'basic' and may be another one that started as a good idea with good intentions but will run out of steam and will be abandoned (at least on desktops).

I mean great that kids/companies have a Linux GUI for the Pi but frankly speaking, if you have a desktop Windows/Mac/Linux why would you change to PIXEL?


And if you have Pi as the main computer.. you'll commit suicide in 2 hours of surfing or basic stuff like banking or youtube.

I don't think we need more, those developers could work on improving KDE, GNOME, etc.. if usability is a problem...

Have not gotten in the Raspberry world yet. Arduino still does everything I need it too.

I do software development, one of the few open source teams in our company. Most of us run Ubuntu, the rest are Mint, with one Red Hat guy.