tito

I've used

OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Damn Small, Knoppix, Arch, Gentoo, Sabayon, Slackware and probably a few others.

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Akria

I've used a few, but much fewer than you.
OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small, Knoppix and Puppy are the ones I can remember, but I might have used more.

Puppy is probably the best small distro, but I'm about to try Austrumi.

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Westcountryman

My updated list:

• Linux Mint
• OpenSUSE
• Mandriva
• Fedora
• Debian
• PCLinuxOS

Gentoo looked far too complicated and technical.

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Westcountryman

Right, my verdicts:

Linux Mint - beautiful and extremely usable and friendly. Would use again quite happily.

openSUSE - currently my distro. of choice, runs like a dream on the laptop, it may also replace Ubuntu on the desktop.

Mandriva - my second distro. of choice. 2008.1 is very nice, looks great and is very user friendly.

Fedora - currently trying it on the desktop. Only installed for a few days but I haven't enjoyed using it much so far. It will probably be replaced by openSUSE.

Debian - not even going there anymore.

PCLinuxOS - still to try this one. Will probably get the .iso later today.


I also tried Yellow Dog on the PS3 (Version 6) - it sucked, so it came off. It was replaced with Ubuntu, which was a little sluggish - I have since installed Xubuntu which runs much better. I have also installed Xubuntu on my mum's laptop, which has brought it back to life (it was running a rather bloated XP install before).

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Akria

Tried gOS yesterday and found it OK, but the Enlightenment version appears to lack any network configuration other than the command line at all, which is a major killer since it's a distro dedicated to the Internet.
Going to try OpenGEU* tonight.

*I have this thing about the Enlightenment window manager.

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Akria

OpenGEU was quite good but unpolished in a few key areas; I don't think I'll be installing it.

I've switched to the Intrepid alpha 1 release as my main OS, BTW; the only problem I've had is that, unusually, my graphics card does not appear in the Restricted Drivers Manager, this being the first time this has happened. Even the Hardy alpha picked up on it, as did Gutsy before that.
Hopefully this will be fixed, although I probably won't install the driver anyway; Nvidia's proprietary drivers are too buggy.

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