I liked them all for different things. Elementary is stable as fuck and that's always nice. Bodhi was extremely lightweight and Enlightenment window management system is really feature rich. Chakra was cool because it was based off of Arch so you could get some rolling-release goodness with KDE packaged in.
It really depends on what you want, but for a day to day OS I think reliability trumps "fun to play with" and out of the three would vote for Elementary.
I'm using Elementary now and it's solid as a rock. I've distro hopped,more or less for over 11 years. I plan to slap Manjaro on a vbox and give it a spin. I have two friends who are really enjoying it. Did you ever have problems with rolling releases?
Uhm I did, but that's because I have the "learn by breaking things" mentality, but I could have easily set up anything Arch based to run steady for me with minimal configuration issues. I just elected to continually try fucking with everything. Is Manjaro still Arch based, I'm so out of the loop...
Ill spent days of my youth you're talkin' about there. That being said, the tiling window managers were never something I could really get into. Don't get me wrong, I tried a bit, but in the end I decided that I personally didn't want to mess around with a bunch of configs to get them to do what I wanted them too, so I don't really know of too many distros that come with tiling WMs as they weren't really my cup 'o tea.
That being said, I've heard awesome things about Awesome WM (God I'm clever). And Enlightenment has some tiling like elements but can't really be considered a true tiling WM. It's been a couple of years since I've messed with a bunch of this stuff, so take anything I say with a grain of salt as the situation has probably changed considerably since I was really into it.
i3 is a very nice tiling window manager (and my tiling window manager of choice).
Be sure that you read the documentation and check out the various configuration files people have available so that you can tweak your copy just the way you want it.
They all can inherently can use tiling window managers. You just have to install the one that you wish to use.
The only distribution that I can recall at the moment which offers a tiling window manager right out of the box (a community edition which has i3) is Manjaro, but I don't really recommend them.
Just to reiterate that this happened in the past and it probably isn't like this anymore.
They used to withhold important security updates under the guise of stability.
Additionally, when their website's SSL cert expired they told people to reset/turn back their system clocks as their workaround.
I've messed around with Bodhi, Elementary and Chakra a bit in the past and all of them were fun.
Which of them did you like best?
I liked them all for different things. Elementary is stable as fuck and that's always nice. Bodhi was extremely lightweight and Enlightenment window management system is really feature rich. Chakra was cool because it was based off of Arch so you could get some rolling-release goodness with KDE packaged in.
It really depends on what you want, but for a day to day OS I think reliability trumps "fun to play with" and out of the three would vote for Elementary.
I'm using Elementary now and it's solid as a rock. I've distro hopped,more or less for over 11 years. I plan to slap Manjaro on a vbox and give it a spin. I have two friends who are really enjoying it. Did you ever have problems with rolling releases?
Uhm I did, but that's because I have the "learn by breaking things" mentality, but I could have easily set up anything Arch based to run steady for me with minimal configuration issues. I just elected to continually try fucking with everything. Is Manjaro still Arch based, I'm so out of the loop...
It seems to me that you have spent some onsiderable time messing with desktop-distros, do you perhaps know some that use a tiling windiw manager?
Ill spent days of my youth you're talkin' about there. That being said, the tiling window managers were never something I could really get into. Don't get me wrong, I tried a bit, but in the end I decided that I personally didn't want to mess around with a bunch of configs to get them to do what I wanted them too, so I don't really know of too many distros that come with tiling WMs as they weren't really my cup 'o tea.
That being said, I've heard awesome things about Awesome WM (God I'm clever). And Enlightenment has some tiling like elements but can't really be considered a true tiling WM. It's been a couple of years since I've messed with a bunch of this stuff, so take anything I say with a grain of salt as the situation has probably changed considerably since I was really into it.
Have you ever tried i3? Thats the one im about to try out.
I never personally used it, no. That was one of the ones people seemed fond however.
i3 is a very nice tiling window manager (and my tiling window manager of choice).
Be sure that you read the documentation and check out the various configuration files people have available so that you can tweak your copy just the way you want it.
Thank you ;)
So far I have only heard good things about i3
They all can inherently can use tiling window managers. You just have to install the one that you wish to use.
The only distribution that I can recall at the moment which offers a tiling window manager right out of the box (a community edition which has i3) is Manjaro, but I don't really recommend them.
Why don't you recomend Manjaro?
They might be fine now, but they have done some questionable things in the past. That's why I don't really recommend them.
Could you please elaborate? I'm really interested.
Just to reiterate that this happened in the past and it probably isn't like this anymore.
They used to withhold important security updates under the guise of stability. Additionally, when their website's SSL cert expired they told people to reset/turn back their system clocks as their workaround.
Sound cheesy. But I really don't get the SSL thig - why not just get a new certificate?