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Discussion on: Which Linux should I install being a React developer

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Divyesh Parmar

I am kind of fed up with Ubuntu UI though otherwise i don't mind using it at all. And yeah i totally agree with you I'd definitely need something more helpful

Because previous times half of the times I couldn't install some package because ir gave some error like

E:/ disk something

So i had to do sudo apt get update and install to make it run agains haha

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tux0r

You can easily change Ubuntu's default UI. But then again, it is Ubuntu's only advantage...

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Ben Halpern

Which Linux distro outside of Ubuntu has the most pleasant UI in your opinion?

Or one that you think others would find most pleasant?

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tux0r

With the effective end of Unity, all Linux distros have the same UI available for installation. If you want to know which default (or "recommended") GUI looks best to me, I'd probably choose elementary OS - it is enormously mac-ish, but I can't deny that it is very eye-pleasant.

I probably still would not install it. It uses systemd.

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Justin Gross • Edited

I love systemd. Too many benefits to count. Gone are the days of a tangled web of tightly coupled bash scripts starting a system. You can do some amazing things with systemd. I'd give it a look over and ignore all the negative hype trains, give yourself a chance to form your own opinion.

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tux0r

And it regularly breaks systems - and gone are the days of having simple "text in, text out" pipes for log files.

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Thomas Junkツ

The most eye candy is available with elementary or deepin, with the ability to install deepin desktop on other distros than deepin itself.

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Adrian B.G.

Which one? Since 17.10 I think they removed the Unity one, and added a Gnome 3 I think is called (the one with the clock in the middle of the screen).

I can say I used a variety of web-related frameworks along the years (I'm testing many new stuff), tools and servers and I didn't had to compile a single package (by hand).

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Avalander • Edited

I have Kubuntu with KDE Plasma at work and I'm very happy with it. If you know Ubuntu but don't like the default desktop, you might want to try other desktops before switching to a different distro altogether.

Or, you know, there's the Hannah Montana Linux.

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Sam Ferree

I run Ubuntu with XFCE (which is slightly different from Xubuntu)

This is the beauty of linux.