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Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:16 am
by tlmiller
With how well Arch (& Debian) work with the WiFi 6 adapters vs. Neon (& all *buntu), Neon and Arch will be swapping positions for me.

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:49 am
by crosscourt
Hardware support with Zorin, Mint and Neon so far has been excellent but my newest hardware is 5 years old.

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:16 am
by tlmiller
Yeah, the Wifi 6 cards are REALLY new, requiring 5.1 kernel which isn't available in most *buntu's unless you compile it yourself, or install from upstream.

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:14 am
by crosscourt
Mint and Zorin both use a version of the 5.0 kernel but both had these versions available well ahead of Ubuntu. Not sure which kernel Ubuntu 19.10 is using but Im going to guess its at least the 5.1 kernel. Mageia 7.1 is presently using the 5.1 kernel.

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:54 am
by tlmiller
Most likely 19.10 will have 5.3

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 5:09 pm
by crosscourt
I havent tried 19.10 yet but Ill post back once I see it.

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:41 pm
by tlmiller
If I remember correctly, it releases it 9 days.

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:17 pm
by crosscourt
Ive been looking at the Beta and I believe they had 5.2 when I tried it.

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:48 pm
by tlmiller
Yeah, probably did. 5.3 hasn't been out overly long (I think 2 weeks now, maybe 3).

Re: My top 5 distros for October 2019

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 2:21 am
by crosscourt
Top 5 list may have some major changes now that Im on my desktops, more options.