What is your opinion of CentOS vs Debian vs Ubuntu?
Debian is definitely harder to use, but that’s one reason Ubuntu is popular.
Ubuntu is the African word for can’t install Debian.
Actually, it means everyone. But everyone who can’t understand the technical questions the Debian installer asks should go with the simpler Ubuntu.
Debian has its own drivers for devices, making it more compatible with a lot of devices.
Ubuntu supports more devices because they don’t need volunteers to write drivers for everything. If you can’t find a Debian driver for your particular hardware, its fanatics would say to go get new hardware or write the driver yourself.
Writing a driver is pretty advanced programming.
So are the skills in general needed to work with Debian.
What is your opinion of CentOS?
Community organizing sounded great in Obama until we have the Great Recovery that has never ended. Same is true for CentOS.
At least CentOS actually works.
It’s based on a Linux kernel and desktop, so the project is entirely comprised of updating and maintaining an already successful product.
Then what’s the problem?
When you rely on volunteers, you rely on their availability to work on it and dedication to the cause. They might decide to go install Linux on recycled computers for charity instead of supporting your OS.
Puppy Linux and a few others are advertised for that very purpose.
But you can choose a different OS to install on the PC. When the developers of CentOS find jobs or do something else with their spare time, there is no one to support it.
It is still supported now.
They are already slow with releases and patches. At some point, it will stop moving and we’ll have to declare it dead.
Then we’d have to move some other OS.
Debian if you’re tech savvy, Ubuntu if you’re not.
