[sf-lug] RPi3 distro recommendation

[maestro]

and john s. uses A LOT of windows too aaron so if he is willing i'd go to
him...


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On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On 06/05/2017 08:30 AM, Akkana Peck wrote:
>
> 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
>
>     Ms.Peck,
>     Aaron was asking for a recommendation and I was not talking
> about Raspbian.
>     He does run Raspbian already and is, I am sure, aware of its
> development chain. My main contribution was that he needed
> to ask John Strazzarino who is as far as I am aware the most
> experienced user of Raspberry Pi hard and softwares who
> attends our meetings
>
>     I am unsure of the status of Raspberry support from Ubuntu.
>     It seems to be supported but that may be an illusion caused
> by the contents of the FAQ about such support that I found
> after the meeting.
>
>     Bobbie Sellers .
>
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