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What is the best Linux distro for academic use? Mostly applied statistics, data work/analysis, numerics, some work on remote server.
I have used Arch with lts kernel and Xfce for the past five years. I need to buy a new laptop soon.
Arch has been very stable for me, and the upkeep wasn't nearly as much work as people here often proclaim it to be. Nevertheless, things like broken font rendering etc are starting to get on my nerves.
Xfce is also sometimes less than optimal (grid tiling doesn't work properly for many applications, Thunar used to be almost broken for quite some time).
I need to get a new laptop soon. What are the alternatives? Ideally I do not lose a full day of work setting up Arch (Yes I know about Antergos).
I like Arch because the AUR has things like rstudio, qgis, sage and basically any package you could ever need for the type of work I do easily accessible.
What are good alternatives? Ubuntu? Repositories are not as complete but I could probably make it work. Fedora? Never used it. One of the obscure niche distros commonly promoted on /g/?
Also, is KDE a good replacement for XFCE?
Academia general I guess. I actually have no formal training in CS or Engineering.
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Install Gentoo.
Seriously.
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>>61800094
I like this kind of meta-arch shill
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>>61800094
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kys then go and stay go
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>>61800094
ether you trolling or you are a complete fucktard-idiot
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>>61800094
openSUSE with KDE, Fedora or Kubuntu. If you want to stick with the arch ecosystem use Manjaro with KDE.
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>>61800094
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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>>61800094
You're mad at BROKEN FONT RENDERING and Xfce? What?
You're not even mad at the fact that being on the bleeding edge breaks some academic packages, since those are usually the ones to never receive timely updates? You're mad at something that's your fault because you don't know how to change font settings or DEs?
What the fuck...
Also, pretty much every distro has rstudio, sage, and qgis. If they don't have them in the repos, which they usually do just download them or build from source.
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>>61801495
infinality perhaps, but that was everyone.
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pure mathfag here
It really doesn't matter OP. I've used Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, Fedora, etc. and then I just went back to Windows 7.
Doing things like Latex, R, Python etc. are OS agnostic.
That said, I think Arch would be a good fit for you provided you like a bit of tinkering.
KDE is more feature rich but more bloated. If you've been using XFCE then try it out.
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