looking for a ubuntu substitute

[Splashman]

I want to say goodbye to ubuntu, I'm tired of the rare roll which is getting, prefer to use my efforts to enlarge other distribution that does not have aimed to turn a company into apple 2.
What should be my choice? Do Falktx your wanted to migrate to arch truth?

[Splashman]

cadence and claudia on debian will work? go to a distribution mother seems a very logic option

[Splashman]

then where would be the problem of choosing a distro or another? I work me as those basic things and let the distro nonsense with the performance would be perfect, and if the system seems to like it was before unity better.

[Splashman]

If you can choose, I'd choose the distro that more support and movement have in the community, but that is they are concerned about having things that work either through svn as you are doing with audio

[Splashman]

joa joa maybe is because the transalator im tired today too.
i said if i have to choose a distro today i will look for the one with most active comunity and if i can debian based.

[danboid]

Splashman:

If you don't want to just use vanilla Debian then I'd recommend you check out AV Linux, Linux MInt Debian Edition and Kanotix.

[Splashman]

yeah, i think mint should be one of the better options. they got now all the active comunity of ubuntu

[Capoeira]

there is also a new "easy" Arch flavor: http://manjaro.org/

[English Guy]

I am using crunchbang, which is configured debian and has a great community. Also handy that there is an rt kernel in the repos.

[audunpoi]

Me too. Crunchbang is great. Very stable, no nonsense.

[rusk]

Ther's no reason to search another distro if you just don't like UNITY. try kxstudio xfce. It's the same ubuntu but with lightweight and more classic DE. It's supported by ubuntu comunity and by kxstudio devs.

[Splashman]

no, i dont like xfce it looks a bit old
i go to tray mageia and mint in a usb

[Nachei]

I use Puppy Studiohttp://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/O ... 8784.shtml because it's very convenient: being a flavor of a 'minimalist' distro (Puppy Linux), it works fully in RAM, which, added to the RT kernel, makes it very fast in my 2 Ghz laptop.

That said, I just use it 'as is', with all the software that comes out of the box, but I don't know anything about Carla or Cadence, or if they are easy to install. Anyway, maybe might be an option to consider for an old computer.

[Zybersun]

The distros i am currently using are Fedora 18, Debian SID and SME for my private server and gateway. I have had great luck with both Fedora (first choice,) and Debian and recording/mixing/getting it all set up easily. Both have great communities. Fedora has a "Design Suite" spin but I never tried it. It seemed to be focused on graphics and such, https://spins.fedoraproject.org/design/#about so I always skipped over it.

There have been some great recommendations (except for one, but I don't want to start an OS war so I wont say which one lol ) also Opensuse might be another option, though like Fedora, it is not connected to Debian obviously. Maybe with any one you choose you could get more people involved to lessen the burden on yourself. This brings me back to Debian and Fedora communities. Worth asking and checking things out there maybe? I haven't used Opensuse in awhile so I am not sure how large or good their community is now.

If you are moving away from Ubuntu I will definitely be checking out KX when you get things switched. Also, Debian repo's and Fedora ones are great. Add RPM Fusion for Fedora and deb-multimedia for Debian and that opens up a lot of options.

Also I should note that Fuduntu is based on Fedora and for some reason they are ending it and basing things on, last I heard, Opensuse. I am not completely sure what all that is about.

[rusk]

i dont like xfce it looks a bit old

man, you can make the DE look and feel like anything you want. There's no restrictions for that. Just google any desired feature and you will get it. I get my xfce look exact like in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeSzWixwdoQ It's old GNOME and I like this set up a lot. Apps used in this video: compiz, cairo-dock, emerald window decorator. It looks and acts the same in xfce. The only missing feature is burn effect in new versions.