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I need a second opinion, /g/.
I'm cleaning a laptop and will use it as both a personal (programming) laptop and for administering a 20-computer Windows network at work. It currently has Windows 8, the standard edition, installed with a hopefully legit license.
Basically, I could do one of three things:
1) Do a clean install of Windows 8 with this license
2) Do a clean install of Windows 10 with this license
3) Ask management for a new Windows 8 or 10 Pro license
3) Install Fedora or something and maybe put Windows in a VM for when I need it
I can't decide. What would you do?
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Well if you like not having any good software use lincucks but you will get burned out on it after a week when you realize you have to enter a dozen commands to do simple tasks.
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Install Windows 10 alongside your Distro of choice with dual boot.
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>>55796559
Don't listen to >>55796743, he's a FUSS spreading faggot. Lubuntu is an excellent distro for a beginner, and you never need to use commands. Even if you run into trouble, that's what the Ubuntu Forums are for.
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>>55796743
But I like CLIs.
>>55796798
Why suggest dual-boot and not a VM?
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>>55796837
It's just my personal preference to have the full experience for both OSes which is nice to have when programming. I suggest you try both VM and full-booting to get a feel of what advantages of each method is.
That being said if you don't have the disk space then a VM would be more comfy.
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>>55796559
3rd option but with OpenSUSE leap. It's built off of Suse enterprise Linux so it's stable plus it comes with network and server tools right out of the box
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>>55796559
>Install Fedora or something and maybe put Windows in a VM for when I need it
That's the ONLY sane option in 2016
Fuck this botnet shit, I switched to Linux last year and don't regret a single bit
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VM only if you have the hardware. Otherwise an hero.
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>>55796928
Why not Tumbleweed? Also, what tools? Isn't YaST strictly a local control panel thing?
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>>55796939
Eh. I used to use Linux full-time but moved back around the time Arch switched to systemd. Also, I haven't seen a Linux distro without major issues out of the box since Debian in the KDE3 days.
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>>55797000
>I haven't seen a Linux distro without major issues
Le epic maymay there dude XD
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>>55797030
Depends on your definition of "major", I suppose. I find stuff like bits of KDE crashing on startup, SMB not working and package conflicts pretty major.
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>>55796559
Any *buntu would be fine for you. Look at the different desktop environments and choose what suits you better. You can always switch inbetween different DE when you feel like it.
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>>55797440
Have you seen problems on Debian or Red Hat?
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>>55796952
Tumbleweed is unstable and it has some makeshift servers tool in it
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>>55796559
Install Gentoo.
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