Importance of the Individuals in the Forum upon Distro choice

[NRD80V]

Dear Dave
Good comment.

1) Responding Linux Forums are of two types - Upcoming and Fanatics
For instance in Sabayon if you post some thing which may hurt the developers, they would pounce on you with angry replies
Linux Lite being an upcoming distribution, there is a lot of energy and enthusiasm
Hope that this stays long.

2) User Friendly Linux Distributions are of two types - Enterprise Use and Windows Replacement
Enterprise Oriented Linux are difficult to customise and use, example CENT-OS, Fedora, Open-Suse and Mageia
Windows Replacement again can be sub-divided into two categories - Linux-Windows and Windows Replacement
Zorin for an instance is a Linux-Windows. They have tweaked it too heavily to make it look and feel like Windows 7
The result the OS has lost its capacity of being a Linux Distribution
Linux Lite is a Windows Replacement and not Linux-Windows and hence it is better and usable

Advantages of Linux Lite:
a) Functional Stability
b) Support & Long Life Cycle
c) Highly Binary Oriented
d) Compatible with all hardwares and windows

Disadvantages are:
a) Ubuntu Orientation, this has many implications which we can't predict.
One of the issue is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Kernel is really not Long Term Kernel, many scholars are writing nastily about this

b) Applications in the repo are at-least 3 to 5 versions down the current. Example VirtualBox is 4.3.10 when now 4.3.18 is active

But from an end user point of view, the advantages certainly out weights the disadvantages
Hence this is a Good Linux Distribution for all

Yours
VN

ChrisL put it really well.

I started out with Windows 2.1 and have used all the variants.(Good & Bad)
But I stuck with XP till the bitter end until a few months back.

My experience kind of mirrors ChrisL, so I wont repeat blow for blow.
other than to say I tried a lot a lot of distro's early this year,
and also sampled their respective Forums(Good & Bad experiences)..!!
I did stick on Zorin8 for a month or so, it was very good, but just did not quite feel right.

Then I found Linux Lite which was also very, very good,
I posted a few questions... got excellent help, and as they say... "The rest is history"
It was the Forum that swung it for me, along with the pro-active Dev's..
I now have LL2.0 on 2 PC's & Laptop all networked & sharing.

Dave

[Kalifornia]

I agree with the OP 100%. LL is my daily driver on my work lappy for a couple weeks now. Fast and reliable and with good people to turn to when you figure out how noob you are at Linux The LL community does not have that elitist Linux attitude I've witnessed and read about.