Suggestion for which flavour to try next

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
1

So, I have been using elementary OS on my laptop for uni for the past 18 months or so, and sure, it’s great, except that as of about 3 months ago I have no sound and I’m too retarded to fix it. So, rather than learn how to fix it, I figured I would just up and install a new flavour of linux but I’m not too sure what to try. Other than a few Ubuntu installs here and there I really am a beginner, even if I have been using it for 18 months…

What do people recommend?

Otherwise, does anyone have any tips for troubleshooting my sound issue (But I really should make a separate thread about that)

2

Is your laptop your main production machine? In which case I wouldn’t get too experimental.

KDE looks very cool and is now resource friendly. You could try it out on Kubuntu. Or opensuse.

The open source versions of chrome os are cool too. Cloud ready doesn’t have android apps yet, but Flint OS does. The chromium OSes are very fast, as the OS is built on Gentoo. It’s also very easy to fix if broken. Because all you would have to do is a simple power wash.

1 Like
3

Cheers, I’ll check that out, one thing I require is to be able to use Matlab, would that be possible on gentoo based OSes?

4

If your looking for something well supported I would recommend Fedora or CentOS. They are both closely related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux which receives plenty of support and documentation.

5

I think you should find out why your sound isn’t working. Considering that is was working, and now it isn’t, installing a new distro may not fix it, or stop it from happening again.

1 Like
6

I agree with Diffident, you should just learn why it’s not working. And start leaving the newbie stage.

2 Likes
7

Yes, but I have my doubts that the chromium os will support it because of the way chromium is implemented.

1 Like
8

On cloudready flatpacks are still experimental. If their is a flatpack, it might™ work tho…

9

Yes, this is what I am learning… I decided to first reinstall elementaryOS to see if that would solve my sound issue and it did not… There are certain seemingly very unusual issues with my sound that I am going to create a new thread about to ask for help. But basically the gist of it is that all I get is a dummy output, and when I purge alsa and pulseaudio, then reinstall and reload alsa, I just get no drivers unloaded (none to unload), no driver loaded (none to load).

That’s not the exact wording, but yeah… I’ll create an actual thread with the actual wording.

10

For various reasons, I reinstalled again, and the sound works now on fresh install, I am updating and will see if it continues to work…

1 Like
11

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=salix

12

I remember using Slax back in the day with KDE. The guy doing it killed it. But now has it back. I used it a little bit. It’s pretty cool. But it doesn’t have KDE and is limited in what you can do.

I remember always getting Slax and Salix mixed up.

13

Salix is neat. I was using it in a whim a year or two ago and still want to learn slackware pretty bad.

Might as well, right?

1 Like
14

Isn’t their a guy named Serge in the Slackware community?

Their was a Serge helping out a YouTuber with the channel name “distrotube” install Slackware.

15

No idea.

16

Bro. Then their was zenwalk, which was like a Slackware arch hybrid or something.

17

But you wanna learn Slackware. How you no know the famous people in the community?

18

I don’t care?

19

that would depend on how adventurous you feel!
slax, gentoo, knoppix, ubuntu, debian,
of these major branches thousands of distros and spinoffs have come into being.
Ive installed a french distro (handyos) and set everything to english for a shop system at work.
easier for the guys to use.
and knoppix for security specialist’s at a local prison.
and an ubuntu based medical distro for a local clinic.
there are so many to chose from so i can say chose based on what you want to do.

1 Like