Alek000
2010-03-23 10:38:24
Well, I am building a new linux box and just figured I would get your opinions on what distro to use. I am currently running Gentoo, but have ran Ubuntu and Suse… What do you guys/girls recommend? Please try to keep answers short :p
Frement
2010-03-23 11:01:54
Debian, my favorite distro so far.
Boreas
2010-03-23 12:45:45
Assuming specs and usage aren't out of the ordinary, just use Ubuntu for the amount of stuff out there.
chaoyd
2010-03-23 13:21:14
Ubuntu/Debian for general stuff. (though Ubuntu is Debian based if I remember correctly). Or Gentoo if you know what you're "hardcore"
Wizzup?
2010-03-23 13:27:46
Gentoo or Ubuntu. :p
If you're a power user I really, really recommend Gentoo. I love it, especially for servers. Ubuntu is just all round nice. It has wonderful integration, easy driver support, ``it just works''.
Nava2
2010-03-23 14:10:06
Gentoo or Kubuntu :)
I like KDE, yet I run gnome…
grats
2010-03-25 11:17:20
Mine is like ubuntu with more bells and whistles you can try that out :P
groertel
2010-03-25 14:44:01
if you liked gentoo but just want to swich things up may I sugest freebsd, it's a lot like gentoo but even more hardcore, it's not linux thow, but that's not allways a bad thing. My faveret linux distro would be eather slackware or debian because of how strict debain is to the gnu stuff, I hate ubuntu btw mainly beacuse it has brought a lot of 12 o clock flashers to the linux community.
ps my spelling sucks
Wizzup?
2010-03-25 17:20:35
From: bullzeye95
Arch for the win.
Arch Linux is for noobs, seriously. Pacman is horrible. It's worse than apt.
noidea
2010-03-25 18:10:12
From: bullzeye95
Arch for the win.
I've been using it :) Pretty cool.
@Wizzup: pacman ``just works.''
Wizzup?
2010-03-25 18:11:56
From: noidea
I've been using it :) Pretty cool.
@Wizzup: pacman ``just works.''
So does apt. They are still a true pain. Portage is the best. :)
anth_
2013-06-26 05:42:54
From: Wizzup?
Arch Linux is for noobs, seriously. Pacman is horrible. It's worse than apt.
Any reason why? Yaourt is pretty useful too! :fiery:
Wizzup?
2013-07-05 09:23:53
From: divina commedia
Any reason why? Yaourt is pretty useful too! :fiery:
Quite the gravedig there… ;-)
And no, I do not recall my reasoning any more. But I still use Gentoo on all my machines. (villavu.com also runs gentoo)
Debian or Ubuntu. But they're all Linux and can be configured as you want, so it doesent really matter.