Favorite linux distro, version 3 i think Options

[Maccabee]

Before I ever install a distro I research it to make sure im not wasting my time. Everyones ultimate goal when distro shopping is something light, good looking, user friendly, usually its best to have something with some kind of community and something you like the feel of!

For a long time i didnt think about steering away from gnome, and I didnt like kde cause normally it was more ugly but when i saw kde distros they looked more complete and I just liked the feel. I tried mandriva and it was a lot faster than ubuntu and I like it a lot. I looked at other distros like it and the top distros that I find that were very similiar were

mandriva
openSUSE
linux mint

I think i have decided those are my favorite three kde distros and Ive been liking kde better then gnome so my favorite distro is...

Linux mint!

I like the look and feel and its fast and comes with codecs(doesnt really matter) preinstalled and even though in the end many distros are so similiar I just decided I it was my favorite!

I understand if you say "tldr". Just tell me your current favorite distro.

[Maccabee]

Huh? You can customize linux? You mean like the internal coding.

And yes exactly. I dont even understand what you guys mean by compiling drivers and programs although Id like to learn how but most people just dont have time. most computers have enough ram to power the os it comes with so theres no point for most anyone to use linux. If you like linux so much then mac os x is the best os cause it has all the features that people like about linux but it is the most user friendly os there is.

You get what you pay for with linux. pun.

And i what i mean by the dvd is I know mandriva has a dvd version that is the same as the cd version but has some extra features that couldnt fit onto the cd.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Huh? You can customize linux? You mean like the internal coding.

And yes exactly. I dont even understand what you guys mean by compiling drivers and programs although Id like to learn how but most people just dont have time. most computers have enough ram to power the os it comes with so theres no point for most anyone to use linux. If you like linux so much then mac os x is the best os cause it has all the features that people like about linux but it is the most user friendly os there is.

You get what you pay for with linux. pun.

And i what i mean by the dvd is I know mandriva has a dvd version that is the same as the cd version but has some extra features that couldnt fit onto the cd.

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You get more than what you pay for, and that's not a pun.

[Maccabee]

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You get more than what you pay for, and that's not a pun.

I realize you can customize everything about how it looks.

[illriginal]

I realize you can customize everything about how it looks.

You can customize pretty much everything of everything in Linux. Linux is like a uhm... canvas and you manipulate everything on that canvas to do whatever it is you want it to do. So as long as you have the knowledge, with linux, anything is possible... it just takes a lot of dedication and patience.

If you were a Unix master... you can literally create a linux distro.. you can literally break Ubuntu down and rebuild it completely the way you want it.