Chosing a distro?

[earobinson]

Anyone know of any good tutorials or guides to help people chose a distro?

[aysiu]

Take these two quizzes

http://desktoplinuxathome.com/distro.html
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

or look at the top ten list at DistroWatch.

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major...

[KingBahamut]

why of course, who could live without the Distor Chooser.

Priceless.

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

[bjweeks]

The best way is to try the main ones and see if you like them. Eg. Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Debian, etc... imo

[aysiu]

The best way is to try the main ones and see if you like them. Eg. Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Debian, etc... imo I would actually say your #1 factor in deciding what you "like" should be hardware support. If two or more things just aren't working right away, that's not the distro for you.

[bored2k]

I was looking for a distro that matched my skin and Skechers vintage sneakers, so I chose Ubuntu.

[UbuWu]

Anyone know of any good tutorials or guides to help people chose a distro?

237 posts and you still don't know if Ubuntu is right for you? ;-)

[earobinson]

sorry *people* is my friend, im ubuntu for sure (maybe not on my 1994 laptop not sure about that yet, havent found a good tutorial on striping ubuntu down to the basics yet)

while im at it how bout a good way to decide what desktop enviroment to use (once i again i love gnome, but maybe not for the laptop.

cheers

[xequence]

Take these two quizzes

http://desktoplinuxathome.com/distro.html
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

or look at the top ten list at DistroWatch.

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major...

I tried the first one there...

We found these matches, sorted by how well they match:

Ubuntu

Failed these criterias:
Does not have a graphical installer
Does not have one-click installable applications

I dont think I chose graphical installer... I did choose the second though :P

Also the second quiz gave me ubuntu as the best choice.

[sophtpaw]

I would actually say your #1 factor in deciding what you "like" should be hardware support. If two or more things just aren't working right away, that's not the distro for you.


Well, Totem never works for me upon installation on Ubuntu. I don't know why Ubuntu has it as default.

Now i just removed it and put xine instead works right away. (except not cd but dvd only)

[bored2k]

Well, Totem never works for me upon installation on Ubuntu. I don't know why Ubuntu has it as default.

Now i just removed it and put xine instead works right away. (except not cd but dvd only)
sudo apt-get install totem-xine will give you a fully functional totem.

[poofyhairguy]

For laptops: Suse

For tweakers: Gentoo

For old computers: Damn Small Linux

For good live CDs: Knoppix, Kanotix, or Mepis

For Gnome fan: Fedora

[WebbyBabe]

I took the test and it said Ubuntu was the best choice for me. :D

[professor_chaos]

I am a Ubuntu user and very happy with it.

I took the distro match maker.... And it told me I was already in the perfect relationship.

[Lux Perpetua]

why of course, who could live without the Distor Chooser.

Priceless.

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php
LOL. It recommended Ubuntu (perfect match, apparently :P). The other quiz also gave me Ubuntu at the top of the list. It's pretty funny considering how little research I did before installing Ubuntu.

[earobinson]

For laptops: Suse

For tweakers: Gentoo

For old computers: Damn Small Linux

For good live CDs: Knoppix, Kanotix, or Mepis

For Gnome fan: Fedora

IMHO

I think thats over simplifying things just a bit. I love to tweak but I love guis also, I love gnome, but Im a fan of deb.

[Lord Illidan]

Also Ubuntu...

[Rose9994You]

Hi

From Redhat 7 I can't Install Any Distro because Their Smart instllaers Detect my Rivi tnt2 card & set it Refresh Rate to 75 Mhz & my monitor don't support this.

How Ever I am Using Vmware with Redhat & ubuntu It is stable . :razz:

But I can't Install Vmware tools on any Distro :-|

[poofyhairguy]

IMHO

I think thats over simplifying things just a bit. I love to tweak but I love guis also, I love gnome, but Im a fan of deb.

Maybe. But there is some truth to it. If you can never generalize, you can never make big statements and it gets confusing.

[earobinson]

Maybe. But there is some truth to it. If you can never generalize, you can never make big statements and it gets confusing.
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