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  • plodr
    PCHF Member
    • Aug 2016
    • 1021

    #1

    Current favorite distro, live preferred

    I’m always looking for a live distro to try.
    My current favorite is LXLE Desktop.


    Though the past week, at another forum, someone got me to try Simplicity, which has Puppy as its basis.
    It connected so much easier than past Puppy versions I’ve tried. It also got the video correct. I’ve had trouble with that in the past.
    Another big plus, when you shut down for the first time, it offers to create a persistence folder. I don’t want to have to start from square one every time I boot up from my USB stick. Being able to save bookmarks, addons and plugins is a must if I choose to use a live stick.
    The browser, FF, comes with two addons installed an adblocker (can’t remember if it is AdblockPlus or uBlockOrigin because I use both - not together) and LastPass.
  • jmarket
    PCHF Owner
    • Jan 2015
    • 7634

    #2
    I don’t really use live distros, but I do use regular distros.

    I’ve tried everything from Mandrake to actual Unix, all the way to BSD variants.

    My favorite distros are CentOS, Debian, and Lubuntu.

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    • system
      PCHF Owner
      • Jan 2015
      • 7634

      #3
      Speaking of Puppy, another lightweight distro worth a look is Zorin, not heaps bigger than Puppy and a great rescue distro to have.

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      • plodr
        PCHF Member
        • Aug 2016
        • 1021

        #4
        I have an old version of Porteus that comes to my rescue.
        They now allow you to build your own but I prefer the very old version that someone built and passed on to me.

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        • system
          PCHF Owner
          • Jan 2015
          • 7634

          #5
          Running my first Linux main boot with Windows 10 as secondary. Hated standard Debian. Love XFCE Debian. Have my eyes set on something Ubuntu based now, but only for testing on a VM for now. Took me 5 clean installs to get my custom component drivers installed properly on Debian. Not doing that again for a while.

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          • Double_Chessburguer
            PCHF Member
            • Jan 2017
            • 7

            #6
            Voyaguer -X here. ItΒ΄s Xubuntu More beautiful and with better performance and Manjaro Xfce. Lately I’m using Mint Cinnamon and i love it. I am very comfortable with the 3, but I do not decide which I will eliminate if Voyaguer or Mint. I do not think it’s okay to have two *ubuntu on my system

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            • My_two_cents
              PCHF Member
              • Oct 2017
              • 3

              #7
              IΒ΄m a .deb guy, Xubuntu, Mint Cinnamon and Zorin are my choices. Sometimes I β€œplay” with Debian and rarely I enjoy Opensuse, yes itΒ΄s out of my comfort zone, but Yast is really great

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              • georgeks
                PCHF Member
                • May 2017
                • 335

                #8
                At home
                Mint 18.2 Sonya Cinammon x64 on a HP 6910p
                Mint 18.2 Sonya Xfce x32 on SAMSUNG NC10 NetBook
                Raspbian on Raspberry Pi (but will try Ubuntu Mate soon)

                At work
                Live Mint 18.2 Sonya Xfce x32 with 8GB persistence for testing hardware
                Live Kali 32 bit Light for registering LOM MAC Addresses

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                • TwitchisMental
                  PCHF Member
                  • Nov 2016
                  • 176

                  #9
                  I am pretty sure OpenSuse has a live version still.. Overall it is still my favorite Linux Distro. As someone else stated, YaST is amazing.

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