Behemoth Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Just curious to how many/which distros you went through before deciding on a final one? I gave Ubuntu, Xubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, and Mandriva all about 3 months a piece before I settled on Fedora Core 9 for my desktop. I decided I would like to eventually get a job dealing with some kind of RH admin or something, so I figured I would try to learn Fedora. I still would like to give Arch a try one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapixels Veteran Posted October 25, 2008 Veteran Share Posted October 25, 2008 (edited) I think it was only 3 before I started using Ubuntu primarily any time I played around with Linux. SUSE, Redhat, and Gentoo I think. EDIT: Wrote Debian, meant Gentoo :p Edited October 26, 2008 by gigapixels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted October 26, 2008 Administrators Share Posted October 26, 2008 I went through many. I settled on Debian and it seems to have suited me well. Ubuntu and their derivatives, as well as Knoppix and its derivatives are all spawn of Debian. I tried Sarge, Etch, and now Lenny (x64). Stable, quick, secure, and updated almost daily. It suits me very well. That is the beauty of Linux. There are many distributions of Linux, each with different looks, package managers, and default desktop managers. Choice is good. I believe that everyone can find a flavor that they would like! :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Gentoo (Yeah... The first one I tried :p ), SUSE, Knoppix, Fedora and eventually Ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly- Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 OpenSUSE and now I'm trying Ubuntu, which I'll probably stick to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xp1ode Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 about 3 or 4, Suse, Red Hat, Slackware, and Mandrake Linux (Mandriva) until i finally just installed ubuntu and been here since. I also used knoppix for a long time, i loved that distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Here is my order... August 2004 - Fedora August 2005 - SuSE 10 August 2005 - Mandrake 10.1 Stayed with Fedora for awhile August 2006 - Ubuntu 6.06 (I think) 2006-2008 - All mentioned above, still playing around with several others (e.g.: Gentoo, CentOS, and Debian) This is what I have now... Fedora 9 VM and Debian Etch Desktop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted October 26, 2008 Veteran Share Posted October 26, 2008 First tried Red Hat in 1996-ish. Left it, but came back to Linux in about 2002. Used Red Hat. Red Hat then stopped "home Linux" at Red Hat 9. They used Fedora as their "community version", so I used Fedora. Less than a year ago, I decided to use Xubuntu, since Ubuntu was very well-received by my wife (she really liked it better than Windows), and Ubuntu "just worked" on a lot of things that required a small bit of initial setup in Red Hat/Fedora. So, I guess you would say I was a committed Red Hatter (or Fedora user) the whole time, right up my recent conversion to *buntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown_97784568745 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I started with linux using Ubuntu 7.10 alpha 1, as ubuntu 7.04 froze randomly. At the same time I was distrohopping about 20 different distros. I had 6 OSes at a time (2x windows, 1x OSX and 3x Linux), so I could use 2 partitions to distrohop while using another for ubuntu. After Ubuntu 7.10 was released I found Arch Linux. I tried it, but I got distracted by other distros for a while. 2 months later I installed Arch Linux again and I never used another distro since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiefloyd_fan Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 ubuntu in 04 had a whole box of free cd's mailed to my... (accidentally selected 15 of each 32 bit 64 bit and mac.. so a huge padded envenlope from paris france came to my door.. then i just used it a couple times.. i wasnt savvy enough to completly dump windows for this.... and i didnt have another machine to dedicate to it.. plus my hardware was a p2 350 with 192 ram and 40gig drive then an ibm server p2 450 690<MB ram raid3 setup with 5x9GB hard drives but again i wasnt savvy enough to stick with the program then this year i heard about open suse.. liked it because it had a ""start"" bar installed it within a vmware use it sometimes. for screwing around not doing much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleck79 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I started with ubuntu but thought others might be better so I tried kbuntu, gentoo, fedora, debian, and a few others. Then I went back to ubuntu. Gentoo (Yeah... The first one I tried :p ), SUSE, Knoppix, Fedora and eventually Ubuntu. damn your first time with Gentoo...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Tried all the buntu's first. Preferred Xubuntu. Didn't take long for that distro (all the buntu's) to remind totally of Nero. Overbloated, overloaded, over exaggeretated distro. Tried Suse (Yuck!). Tried Mandriva (very good). Tried Slackware (very good). Then came across Zenwalk and Blag at the same time. Both distros totally worked on EVERYTHING, and I MEAN EVERYTHING, right out of the box. Took quite some time to decide on which one, but Zenwalk won out. Easily the easiest to install, configure and do what you want it to do, right from scratch, but Blag is not far behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redvamp128 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 A long time ago I used Mandrake 5--- and Red Hat 7.0 = 8.1 then went windows for a long time-- then started using DSL linux then Puppy Linux and tried Ubuntu-- didn't like it at first-- but Now with 8.04 --- it has become my primary desktop-- and have only 1 windows machine left at the house (Win2k)... This machine I am running on now has Ubuntu 8.04 and Puppy Linux 4.1.... I also have the other variations installed-- Xubuntu --- Kubuntu --- and LXDE which is light and fast... http://lxde.org/ for me it seems faster than the xubuntu-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted October 26, 2008 Veteran Share Posted October 26, 2008 ...I also have the other variations installed-- Xubuntu --- Kubuntu --- and LXDE which is light and fast... http://lxde.org/ for me it seems faster than the xubuntu-- Of course it is fast! LXDE is openbox. And all the *boxes are wicked quick! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Solaris 8 2002-2004 (CDE + KDE2.2 and then 3.0) Mepis (the first OS I did not install because a had to) 2004 Mandrake 10 2004 (never worked fine for me, but had xorg and not xfree86, I liked eye candy more than I do now, I had an OSX clone type interface based on KDE 3.2) Fedora core 3 and 4 2005 Gentoo 2005 I always have gentoo on my desktop or laptop since then. I also used OpenSuse 10.1, Ubuntu 7.04-7.10 and during a month when my laptop hard drive broke 2 years ago, but when I had time, I reinstalled a more clean version of gentoo. I also have debian lenny on my laptop and CentOS on my 3 server right now. Also have an Acer one and an Asus EEE so I can add Xandros and Fedora core 8 to the count. I have a Suse 11 with most packages compiled from svn sources daily at work too for my primary desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentaal Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Years ago I've tried SUSE and Knoppix, but haven't used either of them, wasn't too interested in Linux tbh. A month ago I decided to switch and gave Ubuntu a try. The next couple of days I've tried Linux Mint, Debian & Xubuntu, but ended up with Ubuntu (CLI install) for the time being... I'll most likely try Arch Linux in a week or so, hopefully it isn't too complicated. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellofsouls Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 maybe a dozen or so, Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo, etc. before finally settling with Arch Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterC Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I started with Ubuntu, then I went to Arch, then Fedora, then Knoppix, then Kubuntu, then back to Ubuntu after having Kubuntu installed for about 10 minutes. Didn't really like the interface. Since then, I've been using Ubuntu on one of my laptops, my server, and in a VM on one of my desktops. I really love it! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 My first foray into Linux was an old version of Mandrake (as it was known then). Got hopelessly lost and dumped it fairly quickly. Tried Debian about a year or so later, but had 1 or 2 problems with it. Heard about Ubuntu and tried that. This would have been Breezy Badger I think. I was impressed, but I was still clinging onto my Windows comfort blanket. It wasn't until Feisty that I started taking Linux more seriously, and as my main OS of choice. I've always had a version of Ubuntu installed since, but in the meantime I've also explored Suse, Fedora, Arch and a few others. I've got Puppy installed on an old PII machine, and I'm loving that at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Debian -> Mandrake -> Redhat -> Gentoo Now I also run Ubuntu on a couple of laptops and Linpus on the aspire one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 1998 RH > Mandriva > Suse > Fedora > Opensuse > Fedora > Ubuntu > Fedora >iAtkos (Mac OSX , believe me , its basically linux .. a perfect one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacce Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Opensuse, gentoo .. then ubuntu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustix Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 My order of LInux distros Ubuntu 6 Ubuntu 7 Ubuntu 8.04 OpenSUSE Mandriva and now I'm back to Ubuntu 8.04 (hoping to get 8.10 as soon as it comes out :p ) and at work I use Fedora Core 6 oh and i'm just checking out Kubuntu as well ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 I tried Ubuntu first, wasn't satisifed, tried OpenSuse, PCLOS Gnome (which I like very much if only it was updated!), Mandriva, Fedora, then settled back into Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, now waiting for Hardy Heron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted October 30, 2008 Veteran Share Posted October 30, 2008 ... then settled back into Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, now waiting for Hardy Heron. :p Most of us are on Hardy now, waiting for Intrepid. :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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