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Ubuntu 15.10. Fedora 23. openSUSE Leap 42.1.
Major releases of three of the biggest, most prominent, Linux distributions. And they were all released within days of each other (a time now known as the holiday of Distrovus).
So, instead of writing a review of each of these new releases, I am simply writing one article comparing all three of them as desktop workstations (I won't be reviewing them as servers in this article). A battle royale. A no-holds-barred cage match. A Linux Distro Thunderdome. Or a friendly tea amongst three friends. Call it what you will...it means I only need to write one article instead of three. So I like the idea.
Before we start, let's get this right out of the way: I am biased.
I've been an openSUSE user for years and years now. The first distro I used with any regularity was a copy of SUSE that I bought back when you could buy Linux distros in boxes (typically with a small stack of CDs) from electronics stores. I had so much fondness for openSUSE that I eventually went to work for SUSE itself.
In other words: Biased.
But I also spent a few years as an avid Ubuntu user and an incredibly vocal proponent of Ubuntu - writing articles about the perfection of Ubuntu and preaching the gospel of Ubuntu from podcasts far and wide. I believe the phrase "you couldn't pry the Ubuntu out of my cold, dead hands" was uttered more than once.
As for Fedora - I have a huge amount of respect for the project. It, likewise, was my primary distro for roughly a year or so. Couple that with the fact that I would consider a fair number of those actively involved in the Fedora Project to be friends, and you can see that, while I may be a bit biased, I consider myself less a "SUSE guy" and more a "Linux guy."
Now, with that out of the way...
Let's start with Ubuntu 15.10
Why are we starting with Ubuntu 15.10? Because it is, let's be honest, the least interesting of the bunch. That isn't to say Ubuntu 15.10 is bad, mind you. Far from it. But it is rather... boring.
I began my...