Discussion time, my dev friends:

Elementary OS or Mint?

Elementary OS!

@tahnik that's just the one i was expecting to hear. But i wanna know if there's anything to look out. Elementary is technically still in beta, and I've gotten pretty adjusted to workspaces, so i also want to make sure my choice has the capability.

@tahnik that's just the one i was expecting to hear. But i wanna know if there's anything to look out for with either choice. Elementary is technically still in beta, and I've gotten pretty adjusted to workspaces, so i also want to make sure my choice has the capability.

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@MaxDeepfield Also was expecting this 😂😂😂

Debian.

Fedora for meeeeee.

@unhappy404error LFS?

Elementary is beautiful but not stable.

Mint hands down. Tried them all. Suse, arch, ubuntu, fedora whatever. Was with elementary linux for a week before running back to mint appologizing for my affair. I could be biased though as I am using mint since gloria so...

What for?

@unhappy404error No thank you, as cool as that sounds, i actually value my time and need to get shit done 😂😂

@Jop- I'll keep that in mind.

@mundo03 I do just web development for now--full stack, LAMP/Node.js; text editor w/ plugins, a terminal, and a browser are pretty much always open. It's my main OS (i only keep windows for Adobe PS and gaming), so i do mostly every mundane thing on it too.
It's an Acer Aspire 15: 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD; 2GHz

Thanks everybody for the feedback, i appreciate it. I don't have much techie friends, let alone any who are into linux.

UPDATE: Tried out Elementary earlier last night: It's sexy, and i like the simplicity, the shortcuts are easy to get used to, but it does feel a bit stripped though it's honestly not that big a deal. Making a bootable USB for mint as i thpe this. Probably won't try it till later at work though; i should probably get some rest 😥

Elementary OS is still unstable, I used it for a month and it's very beautiful until I had stumbled upon many frequent crash with no solution, then I went to Arch and choose Apricity to ease the installation. Then some month later it was discontinued, well I just need to change the mirror..

TL;DR; Mint for a stable dev environment, Elementary for aesthetics

@AllenII then mint mate, element OS is to use a computer for basic stuff, general easy use. That is what my mother uses.

Mint is Ubuntu which is Debian within anyway. You'll have more support for dev stuff.

@rkkautsar @mundo03 well it's decided then. I'll be installing Mint on my laptop some time tomorrow. Thanks again for the feedback

@Jop- you're right, i made sure to check that before even bothering. What won me over was Mint's superior stability

@AllenII UPDATE: I lied; I went with Elementary. It's Debian and simple to work with.I'll see how this goes over the next couple weeks/months

Elementary OS all the way my favorite distro to date

Lubuntu

@Jop- oh really?
Do you think if I move to it.. will the stuff in my home folder work after a clean install?
(I have a partition set specially for it)
Cheers mate :)

@Jop- well shit, I am currently in Ubuntu budgie, I think I am switching to elementary os

When i get home, I'm going to try out Deepin OS.

@Jop- oh it doesn't? It detected all my onboard/internal devices fine, at least as far as i can tell. It's nice looking and i kinda like the settings popping from the side, though i wish there was a fullscreen solution

@AllenII from what I understand the usage of QT to create the entire DE is a lot of overhead for a Linux system. For me that is one of the big pluses of Linux, blazing speed, so far I've heard rendering the DE alone is just to intensive to be a real good developer distro

@Jop- really I mean I've ran htop and checked on my computer hardware and it doesn't ever seem to ever be working to hard unless I push it to that point and from what I've read/heard deepin is generally close or always close to maxing out the CPU but ive never tried it myself so what do I know lol