What's your Distro?

[Zombie]

As a permanent non-windoz user, I've used many flavors of Linux over the past five years from Gentoo to Slackware, and now I've settled in with the ease and simplicity of Ubuntu. (I love debian varieties). So, the question is, what's your distro of choice and why?

Ubuntu, my wireless works, my webcam works (though it's flipped, and I did a little research and saw several methods for correcting it's upsidedownness however I never really use it and never bothered with trying to correct it). Well, I've been using Ubuntu since 9.04, and it's only been getting better. The Ubuntu community is massive, I've never even had to post a question as of yet because I've been able to search answers for everything!

As for performance, it's fast enough. I'm still using gnome because I just don't like KDE. I might eventually try out XFCE again, but the last time I used XFCE, there were a lot of issues. With me being lazy, it kind of didn't work out. I think XFCE is like the replacement for blackbox.

Anyway, yeah, before I start my incessant rambling, your distro of choice and why? Or, if you don't use Linux, why?

 

[Skeetonursheets]

i prefer windows because its my very first computer i ever owned and it is familiar to me now, linux sounds complicated lol

 

[Zombie]

I can assure you, if you actually tried Ubuntu in it's current edition, you wouldn't find it complicated at all. In fact, Ubuntu has an option that let's you try it inside of Windows. If you have partition magic, you can resize your windows partition, and you can install Ubuntu on the remaining hard disk space. It's really quite simple to be honest.

 

[gamahiro]

Gentoo because you can compile it from source. My wm is enlightenment dr17. I don't like Ubuntu. The only distro worse than ubuntu is suse.
Just my 2 cents

 

[opensourcefool]

Gentoo because you can compile it from source. My wm is enlightenment dr17. I don't like Ubuntu. The only distro worse than ubuntu is suse.
Just my 2 cents

I've been running Ubuntu as my main OS at home for three years now, and while it hasn't always been smooth sailing, I have to say I've never regretted it. I've played with Slackware, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, and OpenSuse at work and home, but I keep coming back to Ubuntu.

To answer the main question in the thread, I choose Ubuntu because it is a well-polished Desktop OS that is user-friendly, but as with all *nix's it let's you get your hands as dirty as you would like. As someone often faced with family members' and students' PC problems, Ubuntu has been a tremendous boon to me and my free time. My greatest success story is installing it on a new laptop for a 70 year old woman who had only used Windows at her library. I haven't had a single call for help in the year+ since I installed it. I want to go over and upgrade her system, but she's happy, and it works, so why change things up on her?