The Definitive "WHICH LINUX DISTRO?" Thread


What distro do you use?  

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  1. 1. What distro do you use?

    • Mandrake
      111
    • Fedora/Red Hat
      145
    • Knoppix
      26
    • Debian
      44
    • Gentoo
      117
    • SUSE
      69
    • Slackware
      54
    • LindowsOS/Lycoris
      8
    • PCLinuxOS
      3
    • Other
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@iCeFuSiOn: I myself am only new to the linux scene (ny a few months) and i started with and am still using Fedora and am quite happy with it but think am ready to move on to Slackware or Arch Linux (wanna eventually give Gentoo a go :-D)

Now hope the following helps:

  • Chat using IRC and Instant Messenger services (MSN, ICQ, and AIM)
    Gaim will do this...
  • Graphics design (I could use the GIMP for this)
    Yeha gimp will work or you ca use Photoshop via wine ;)
  • Listen to music (I could use XMMS and the MP3 package for this)
    Yeah that will work fine
  • Play the occasional game of Wolfenstein ET
    A native version is available (Just make sure you have the correct OpenGL Linux drivers for your Video Card
  • HTML Coding (I dont have enough fingers to count the choices for this one)
    Bluefish is nice, gedit (texteditor :-P)
  • Browse the web & send email (Like I said above, too many choices, not enough fingers)
    FireFox and Thinderbird :-P

If this thread is to be "definitive" then does it not need to merge with:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=152061

and

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=152949

There's probably more too but there's no need to go that far back in time.

To everyone who says Gentoo helps you learn:

How does portage help you learn if it does everything for you? Learning would be working out dependancies for yourself, then finding and installing them manually.

If you want to learn, try Linux From Scratch.

you may call that learning, i call that a neusance.

To everyone who says Gentoo helps you learn:

How does portage help you learn if it does everything for you? Learning would be working out dependancies for yourself, then finding and installing them manually.

If you want to learn, try Linux From Scratch.

The learning comes from configuring the system. Heck, I read the ebuilds to everything I install anyway so I know what it is doing. You get out of it what you want.

Any idiot could type ./configure; make; make install a hundred times, Portage just removes that hindrance.

I'm working with Mandrake since 8.0 until 9.2, then when I got confortable enough with Linux, I update my URPMI to the cooker three and jump into the wagon of bug testing. I must said that right now I'm at the community version with some patch from the cooker three and it's stable enough to day-to-day use.

I also install a kernel (2.6.5-4Phoenix) that a guys compile and share with some, that include the nvidia module in it.

But like some said the distro that will suit you is the one that better reflect what you want to do with it. I found my need into Mandrake --> Cooker version.

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