Instead, they tweaked it to make it slightly more efficient and user-friendly, out of the box. But Ubuntu didn’t just accept a vanilla GNOME desktop. These extensions go a very long way to aid in boosting productivity (so Ubuntu gets the nod over Mint). You might be wondering why I didn’t choose Linux Mint for this category? Because Ubuntu now defaults to the GNOME desktop, it gains the added advantage of GNOME Extensions ( Figure 1 ).įigure 1: The GNOME Clipboard Indicator extension in action. The primary reason for choosing Ubuntu for this category is the seamless integration of apps, services, and desktop. General Productivityįor general productivity, you won’t get much more efficient than Ubuntu. Yes, there are more categories to be had, many of which can get very niche-y, but these five should fill most of your needs. Graphic Design: For those that work with the creation and manipulation of graphic images.ĭevelopment: For those who use their Linux desktops for programming.Īdministration: For those who need a distribution to facilitate their system administration tasks.Įducation: For those who need a desktop distribution to make them more productive in an educational environment. General Productivity: For those who just need to work efficiently on multiple tasks. For the purposes of this list, however, I’ll look at: That task itself was challenging, because everyone’s productivity varies.
To help make sense of this, I’ve divided them into categories of productivity.
Let’s take a look at the distros I consider to be your best bet for productivity. These distributions help strip away the complexity that can be found in Linux, thereby making your workflow painless. Some distributions do a much better job of “getting out of the way,” so you don’t find yourself in a work-related hole, having to dig yourself out and catch up before the end of day. That doesn’t mean, however, that some distributions aren’t able to do a better job of configuring and presenting that underlying operating system into an efficient platform for getting work done. General office work? Development? School? Data mining? Human resources? You see how this question can get somewhat complicated. Second, to gauge effectiveness, you have to consider what type of work you need a productivity boost for. Thanks to an incredibly reliable and stable platform, getting work done is easy. Why? First off, Linux is a productive operating system by design. I have to confess, this particular topic is a tough one to address.
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