Hey guys I'm switching to Linux today so i would like to know which distribution is the best one. cheers ?

Question

waiting for your opinion guys. I want a Linux to program with... which has a pretty desktop also. thanks

Answer 1

dont listen to that answer, choose Ubuntu or Linux Mnt!! red hat/fedora suck :P !

Answer 2

There are several worth considering OpenSUSE 11.0 being one of them, however there can in some circumstances with OpenSUSE be graphics driver issues.

Here are some possibilities :

Mandriva 2008.1 Spring http://www.mandriva.com/

PCLinuxOS 2007 http://www.pclinuxos.com/

SimplyMEPIS 7.0 http://www.mepis.org/

Ubuntu 7.10 http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ (My Preference)

Ubuntu 8.04.1 http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/

Linux Mint 4.0 http://www.linuxmint.com/ (My Preference)

Linux Mint 5.0 http://www.linuxmint.com/

OpenSUSE 11.0 http://www.opensuse.org/

All are easy to install and easy to use.

I would perhaps suggest you select Linux Mint 5.0 for starters as it has much of the software you are likely to use preinstalled.

LUg.

Answer 3

I would recommend one of the Red Hat versions of Linux, I have been using Red Hat Linux for months now and I have never had any trouble with it.

On my server I am running Linux Fedora 8 which is also very good.

Hope that can help,

Lord Max