Distro discussion

[sally_maria]

Hi, I've been lurking here for a while, so I thought I'd try and start a conversation. I've been using Linux for about a year, but wouldn't consider myself any kind of expert.

I was wondering which distros people use, and if you stick to just one, or if you "distro-hop" or use different ones on different machines. What do you love most about your distro of choice?

Comments

[asenathwaite]

I'm a relentless distro-hopper. I started with Puppy on an ancient laptop, and then moved on to Zenwalk, Mint Fluxbox (I love lightweight window managers), a few others I don't remember, and most recently Arch, then Peppermint, and now back to Puppy (the Browser Linux puplet, to be precise). Right now I'm running off Puppy on a flash drive with my Arch install underneath.

I really liked Peppermint, but I couldn't get it to recognize my screen resolution. Zenwalk is solid, but the apps it comes with tend to be outdated. Arch is whatever you want it to be, but setting it up is a pain. When I used Mint it was very nice, but kind of slow on my laptop. I've come back to Puppy over and over, so I guess it would be fair to say that it's my favorite distro.

I've thought about trying CrunchBang, Absolute, and Salix. Maybe someday.

[asenathwaite]

Oh, I forgot antiX. I really liked that one.

[feathertail]

Fun names. ^.^

[kerravonsen]

With a name like that, dare I deduce that it is a command-line only distro?

[asenathwaite]

Not quite, but it's intended for older machines (antiX = antiques) and doesn't have much in the way of gui configuration utilities. I used the command line a lot.