What Distros do you use?

[Nagaru]

I know not many people use Linux here but to those who do what do you use?

 

[PV5150]

Used to use RedHat and Debian. Now I'm just using Ubuntu as a dual booter on one of my other rigs.

 

[mVp24]

Fedora!

 

[FragTek]

Redhat, SuSe, and Ubuntu are all that I've used in the past. SuSe being by far the best.

 

[Nagaru]

I tried Fedora and found the package managment sucky, I need to give SuSe and Ubuntu a try .

 

[equk]

I've tried quite a few: Redhat, Suse, Corel (lol), Slackware, Mandrake, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, Smoothwall, IPCop.

I only voted for Gentoo, Ubuntu & Debian tho as those are the latest ones I've tried that have actually been usefull. Slackware was ok, but that was a few years ago. Think my first linux install was in 1998 or something.

The best imo are:

Ubuntu - for ease of use (aswell as being very customisable, using deb's)

Gentoo - amazing for someone who wants to learn or has knowledge and wants a totally custom system, even down to compiling. Stage1 is excellent for learning. Also amazing distro for firewalls/IDS etc.

Last time I tried Suse I hated it as it tried to be windows and tried to do everything itself, including falling over itself several times. Mandrake was ok, but stupidly slow and bloated until you tweaked the services etc.

I think redhat was ok, but Suse,Redhat+Mandrake all fall into trying to be windows and result in falling over themselves aswell as being bloated

 

[nathan]

anything debian based.

 

[blackoper]

fedora core mostly, but I may give ubuntu a whirl in a test system

 

[Nagaru]

I have switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu because Gentoo is going down the tubes. Ubuntu is very good largely since it is based on Debian. I think most people would like it, and the package management is great.

 

[nunzio]

I use a fair few.

Redhat Enterprise/CentOS at work on servers.

Ubuntu/OpenSUSE at work on desktops.

Ubuntu at home.

FreeBSD on my webserver.

OpenBSD on my p266mmx laptop.

 

[Joe]

im a gentoo boy .. and for those time when i dont have the time to wast to install i use sabayon .. gentoo based , pretty and precomiled

 

[equk]

im a gentoo boy .. and for those time when i dont have the time to wast to install i use sabayon .. gentoo based , pretty and precomiled

Nice I might have to look at sabayon as I love gentoo, but I find myself using ubuntu more and more due to compile times in gentoo

 

[blackoper]

am I the only one that hates the Gnome desktop? For some reason I just hate it and always load KDE or Xfce

 

[Joe]

Nice I might have to look at sabayon as I love gentoo, but I find myself using ubuntu more and more due to compile times in gentoo

Its essentially Gentoo as a fresh install .... but loaded with beryl by default

am I the only one that hates the Gnome desktop? For some reason I just hate it and always load KDE or Xfce

No I detest it also, its trying to contain too many diverse ergonomic philosophies (IMHO) --- and the dual gnome Panels (menus/taskbars) by default WTF i like my pixels to be useful

I love KDE (4 will be amazin ) I also Use XFCE and Fluxbox

 

[Nagaru]

No I detest it also, its trying to contain too many diverse ergonomic philosophies (IMHO) --- and the dual gnome Panels (menus/taskbars) by default WTF i like my pixels to be useful

I love KDE (4 will be amazin ) I also Use XFCE and Fluxbox

I combine the panels and put it at the top .

KDE always seems to busy to me, I have heard wmii is good, but it looks like you need a fairly high res screen.

What is the difference between XFCE and Gnome in daily usage?

 

[equk]

I use Gnome

I tried XFCE as people said it was faster etc and it just annoyed me, so much stuff I use was missing & configuration stuff was all over the place

It felt to me like I was trying to run a marathon with a broken leg

 

[nunzio]

Gnome is the better choice for newbies, and for most of the advance users. I used to use blackbox and fluxbox, but have gone back to Gnome, imho it looks, and behaves better.

XFCE is nice, but its not that easy to configure, yet.

 

[AmBush]

i've used many distros over the last 10 years am Currently using Suse :rocker: So thats where my vote went, Gave up on Mandrake last year too slow between releases.