Linux Distributions and Their Compatibilty

This is a scathing remark on some distributions except Debian which I regularly use in my SSD on PC and the Laptop and Ubuntu I never used but has spawned many good forks including MutliSystem DVD that I use to make Multiboot USBB and SD cards both standard and micro.

I must recommend Emmabsntus Debian.Edition for you at the beginning.
Once installed unlike Peppermint it has large number of applications on first boot and one need not waste downloading missing applications.

Having said that AbiWord is missing in all.

I hope, in the near future Androids will have AbiWord.

Most of the distributions except Debian and BSD while very subservient EEFI booting Menu disregard other Linux distributions to promote one particular distribution of one's interest which is against the general common spirit Linux.

I use AbiWord for my work but no distribution except Emmabantus supports it.

Of course one can download AbiWord after base installation but I have pulled out the faulty Ethernet wire.

No Internet.

Additionally no WiFi gadget in my old PC and the Telecoms and Dialog do not support a pure Linux PC with WiFi USB.
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Only Windows, they support.

I decided to update with Peppermint, PCLnux one my old favourite and perhaps Mandriva.

BSD takes over the hard disk with tank pools and won't dual boot and is out on first count.

I have downloaded these long before Coronavirus pandemic and no need for me waiting for a iso.

Now my decision not to use UEFI was a very prudent decision.

Mind you SSD does not have a MBR partition like rotating disks.

SSD boots only one distribution.

While old rotating disk can boot up to 15 distribution (for testing in my case) but I rarely go beyond 7 distributions in one terrabyte disk.

One for root and one for the home partition mean only 7 installations possible.

If you have rotating disk do not discard it for a SSD, keep it as a precious possession.

I always have two huge NTFS partition for DATA and never touch them while making changes to the partition.table, many times round.

I think latest Debian support reading Androids, I believe but I have not tried my cellphone on Linux for a long time.
There is no data except photos in my cellphones which have been transferred to the NTFS..

I think, without a USB port due to Android's thin design cellphone cannot be used as a workhorse.

1. Leaving those comments behind, Peppermint has minimal utilities and without Internet, it is useless to me.

2. PCLinux is a pain and boots without a separate  ESP but in one mega partition.
It won't let you partition the disks to one's own needs.
So without BIOS help it is redundent.

3. Mageia has problem with GRUB.

4. Ubuntu I have already commented.

5. MXLinux I did not try.

6. SuSeLinux I have not tried but an old copy on a 8 GB USB is pleasing.

7. Knoppix does won't to be on a FIXED hard disk but mobile and portable.

8. Pupply is very similar to Knoppix but Light Weight.

9. Redhat and Fedora I have given.up long time ago.

10. Emmabanrus, the Ubuntu version I have not tried for a long time.

11. PinGuy has gone into latency.

12. ZorinOS I do not have a copy but I never liked it.

13. ARCH is too difficult to handle.

14. Absolute Linux takes over the hard disk.

15. Endless OS is good but it takes over the hard disk and no.dual.booting like BSD.

One need Internet to make full.use of its enormous software store, all pulled out from the Debian repository.

My advice for a novice is to try one distribution and.master it before going for another distribution.
They almost have the base from Debian.except Slackware, Absolute Linux  and Arch.

So me Debian is the Winner after all and trying other distributions is just a hobby for academic reasons and a bit of nostalgia for a guy.who used Linux for 10 years less than Linus Torvalds.