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Best Linux Distro, For Personal Computer Use
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post Oct 12 2008, 03:55 AM
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I've had Ubuntu and Fedora on two of my machines for a good 5 months now. Personally, I've become a huge, huge fan of Linux and I don't see myself switching back to Windows or crossing over to the dark side of Mac anytime soon (aside from government computers, of course).

Well, I just picked up Mandriva and it runs even smoother than the other distributions that I have. My mediocre Dell Insprion 6000 now operates like an XPS or Alienware computer, in terms of speed. After a few hours playing around on the terminal, I managed to install Fruity Loops 7 XXL Producer Edition as well as the racing game GRID. Everything runs smoothly.

Still, I can't seem to figure out which Linux distro is the best. Each one I've acquired has been better than the one before. For the Linux users, what distros are you running on your machines? What do you personally recommend?

edit: KDE is growing on me. I'm still partial to Gnome, but KDE 4.1 looks clean.
 

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fameONE   Best Linux Distro   Oct 12 2008, 03:55 AM
mipadi   At work (I'm an assistant systems administrato...   Oct 12 2008, 10:06 AM
fameONE   QUOTE(mipadi @ Oct 12 2008, 09:06 AM) At ...   Oct 13 2008, 04:09 AM
XTC   On my old computer I had Mandriva. My new one doe...   Oct 12 2008, 11:12 AM
fameONE   ***UPDATE*** I'm currently still sold on Ubun...   Oct 18 2008, 04:43 AM
mipadi   Yeah. Some details might be different, but overall...   Oct 29 2008, 11:24 PM
fameONE   ^So I found an Debian/Ubuntu based distribution th...   Nov 5 2008, 10:50 AM
JosephCohen123   QUOTE(fameONE @ Nov 5 2008, 09:50 AM) ^So...   Jan 17 2009, 11:17 PM
applejaxkz   I am a huge Suse fan. They seem to have a lot of s...   Nov 13 2008, 01:20 AM
mipadi   QUOTE(applejaxkz @ Nov 13 2008, 01:20 AM)...   Nov 13 2008, 11:01 AM
fameONE   ^What exactly don't you like about it? I heard...   Nov 21 2008, 08:01 AM
mipadi   QUOTE(fameONE @ Nov 21 2008, 08:01 AM) ^W...   Nov 21 2008, 12:06 PM
fameONE   That's a disappointment. I was considering SUS...   Nov 22 2008, 01:16 AM
WarMachine   gnome-look.org is a pretty good site. it may seem ...   Dec 31 2008, 05:07 PM
medic   When I did web servers, email servers, game server...   Jan 2 2009, 12:17 AM
WarMachine   QUOTE(medic @ Jan 2 2009, 08:17 AM) The g...   Jan 2 2009, 01:16 AM
mipadi   QUOTE(WarMachine @ Jan 2 2009, 01:16 AM) ...   Jan 2 2009, 06:40 AM
WarMachine   QUOTE(mipadi @ Jan 2 2009, 02:40 PM) Wait...   Jan 2 2009, 06:54 AM
mipadi   Definitely check out Hannah Montana Linux:   Aug 11 2009, 03:00 PM
medic   I use Mint and love it. It's based off Ubuntu,...   Aug 16 2009, 01:46 AM
Buttsex   I hate Ubuntu because it babies you, but I hate Mi...   Aug 16 2009, 02:07 AM
medic   QUOTE(Buttsex @ Aug 16 2009, 01:07 AM) I ...   Aug 17 2009, 04:26 AM
Buttsex   sudo apt-get install cockshaker-i386-dev   Aug 17 2009, 05:18 PM


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