Choosing a Linux distro, right for you.We may get confused, when choosing a Linux distro for yourself. Specially, when We are intermediate or an advanced user. In my personal experience this happened many times. And at last, i found piece with Arch Linux. So, this tutorial is ll about simple gives you an idea bout, which distro you should choose and the reason for choosing it.
Choosing a Linux distro, right for you
Operating System/Distribution name | Reason(s) for using |
Red Hat Enterprise (RHEL) | You are a manager and you want a good support contract |
Fedora | You want Red Hat on your laptop/desktop |
CentOS | You want Red Hat without the support contract from Red Hat |
Linux Mint
|
You want a personal graphical desktop to play movies, music and games. |
Debian |
My personal favorite for servers, laptops, and any other device.
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Kali |
You want a pointy-clicky hacking interface.
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Ubuntu |
Very popular, based on Debian, not my favorite.
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Arch Linux | My favorite, for advanced Linux users |
others | Advanced users may prefer Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, Scientific, … |
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