distro wars (was Re: Hardware sources redux)
I've used Slackware, Mandriva, something or two or three handed out at
OCLUG meetings around the Corel Linux era (does anyone remember their
names?), Redhat, SUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu.
I haven't switched from Ubuntu for about 6 years now on server and
Kubuntu on desktop.
For me, it's been reasonably up-to-date, rarely broke badly, and worked
well enough. As for choosing Kubuntu - it was better than gnome at the
time, and now it's intertia. :-)
I recently upgraded my web/dns/list server from from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04
LTS Bionic Beaver to get recent versions of apache, wget, php etc. which I
was installing from PPEs (alternate repositories). The upgrade went very
smoothly. I quickly ripped out netplan, "The network configuration
abstraction renderer" (bleah!) after installation though. netplan.io is
one of those bad choices that sometimes come with Ubuntu, I'll admit.
I reinstalled good old ifconfig, which took about 5 minutes and others
have already provided instructions for.
Of course the great thing about the Linux ecosystem is choice and
customizability.
Brett