On 21 January 2014 11:42, Chris <wend...@tcd.ie> wrote: > On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 11:18:05 UTC, Joakim wrote: >> >> On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 12:30:27 UTC, Chris wrote: >>> >>> At work we use Ubuntu, however, I'm not at all happy with it and don't >>> want to use it on my private computer. Which is the best alternative (I've >>> been looking at OpenSUSE; Mint is based on Ubuntu/Debian but only shares the >>> repository with Ubuntu (right?); Fedora has bad reviews at the moment and >>> might be a pain to set up (drivers etc.)). I'm also considering FreeBSD, a >>> completely different beast. >> >> >> FreeBSD with E17 is the best desktop I've ever used, very fast and >> responsive. You can quickly run or install PC-BSD to see if it will go well >> with your hardware, then reinstall to FreeBSD if you like it but don't want >> or need all the PC-BSD extras. The FreeBSD packaging system works very >> well. >> >> Arch is the one linux distro that reminds me of FreeBSD, particularly >> pacman and the AUR, which is why it is the only one I install these days. > > > How's the FreeBSD documentation / community? Is it easy to find solutions? > ArchLinux is really good (from the little I've seen so far) and not as > chaotic as "askubuntu".
Being a ubuntuforum guy (and a previous member of staff there) - I've never liked askubuntu either.