[sf-lug] RPi3 distro recommendation

[Akkana Peck]

> On 06/04/2017 12:51 PM, acohen36 wrote:
> > Any good recommendations for a user-friendly Linux distro to go
> > onto a Raspberry Pi 3's microSD card??
> > 
> > The current default one I've used is a "properly" configured Raspbian
> > [ ... ]   Bobbie S just mentioned that Ubuntu is
> > discontinuing RPi support and I'm not interested in using a full
> > multimedia-center or server-type distro.

Bobbie Sellers writes:
>     Well I thought I had read that ARM and Raspberry support was
> discontinued along
> with Ubuntu's Unity which was a phone DE interface actually.

I'm confused. Isn't Raspbian based on Debian, not Ubuntu? And
Raspbian uses its own desktop (called Pixel, based on LXDE). So
Ubuntu's support or non-support of RPi, or of Unity, should make no
difference to someone using Raspbian. It only matters if you were
thinking of switching the RPi from Raspbian to Ubuntu and switching
to the Unity desktop. In which case, well ... don't. :-)

        ...Akkana