What is your favorite Linux Distro?

Question

I like openSUSE 11 myself, what is your preferred Linux distro?

Answer 1

Linux Mint.  http://www.linuxmint.com

Answer 2

Wolvix Linux,  its a slackware type... a little more though,   its pretty awesome, REALLY small and has EVERYTHING already installed, its pretty amaizing, google it.

i went on a linux distro hunt tried so many, and this was my fav out of 8 or 9,  

Answer 3

Ubuntu. It has Wubi. :D

Answer 4

redhat linux or ubuntu.....

Answer 5

My preferences are Ubuntu 7.10 and Linux Mint 4.0 also I am working with Sabayon Linux 3.4f which is based on Gentoo and quite awesome.

I am not going to get involved in a distro. flaming war. Suffice to say I have used many and each one has its strengths and weaknesses.

LUg.

Answer 6

May I'd suggest a Debian or Ubuntu Linux install. However, I suggest DSL Linux? This small but effective Linux version is so small that it can fit on a credit card CD or Thumb Drive. It runs well and has most of the common Linux features. DSL Linux (http://www.DamnSmallLinux.org) was passed to me by a Pholosophy Professor and former Microsoft Developer. It is very nice indeed. Try the LiveCD and if you like it, you can install right from the booted live cd linux environment. That's very nice, I can boot into DSL from a cd, try it out, and if I like, a click or 2 and it's installed. No reboot needed. The LiveCD is also the Install CD. And all under 100mb.

Answer 7

One's always fond of the first.  For me that was 1994, going into the computer lab at school because I heard they had a graphical web browser and a real C++ compiler, and being issued an account on the Slackware network.  Love at first sight.

It was actually years later when I could afford my own computer with a fancy graphics card.  2001.  I bought a two hundred dollar refurbished Gateway and threw Red Hat Linux 7.0 on it.

I've been through several.  On different machines I run Debian, Gentoo and Slackware.  I would NOT call Debian my favorite, though I live with it thank you very much.  Gentoo has its excellences.  Not least that one of my Gentoo Boxes was Fedora Core 9 for two days at the start of the month and I learned why a gentleman at our LUG yelled a few months ago "I HATE Fedora Core 9.  It's NOT UNIX!"  It's not.  And it's not better than UNIX either.  But my heart belongs to Slackware.  Sigh.

Answer 8

I have tried a lot of different Linux distros and find I keep coming back to Ubuntu. Right now I am installing Ubuntu Studio to give it a test spin and Mandriva in a dual boot scenario. I think I have come to prefer the Gnome desktop environment and that influences my perception as to which distro I prefer. I do really like some of the "minimalist" distros such as Puppy Linux. I prefer speed over glitz. I would like to try Slackware or Gentoo or Vector but I am not quite up to "geek-speed" and so I stick with the more gnoob friendly distros.

My favorite would have to be Ubuntu, followed very closely by Puppy :)

Answer 9

I perfer to use Slackware