There seems to be no perfect distro, one that suits all my needs and does what I want it to do, i've tried almost everyone of the top distro's at Distrowatch and some of them had certain stuff i liked, but there wasn't one that had everything i like. I'm going to go through the main ones and tell me what YOU think.
Slackware:
Pros:Nice no ******* around install, very fast and stable and so far the fastest one to boot that i've tried. Most things seem to install from source easier, i dunno why.
Cons: No decent package manager, while it doesn't seem like much of a problem when you go to install something like VLC you'll run into a lot of problems, it's just too much of a pain to get it how you want it.
Fedora:
Pros: Really nice welcoming distro.
Cons: RPM
Debian:
Pros: Well, if there is any distro that comes the closest to my needs it's definetly debian. Loads of packages, easy to install all my Video and music apps without too much fuss. The net install almost let's you build everything how you want it.
Cons: Still seems out of date and i don't really like their release schedule.
Ubuntu:
Pros: Fast, easy to install and does most things out the box.
Cons: I feel it limits you to using gnome, you would have to go to a lot of hassle just to remove it.
Well that's it, out of all the distro's i've tried they feel like the only ones worth mentioning, there is still two distro's i want to try mainly being Archlinux and Gentoo which i still cannot seem to install. Gentoo really looks like something i would like, so it's quite a shame. So i'm just curious, do you think there is a perfect distro that suits almost all your needs? Oh and by the way, i've formatted 25 times in two weeks jumping from distro to distro and i can't sink my feet into any for longer than a day or two. I'm hoping the new debian stable will be really good, but for now i don't know what i'll do, maybe continue to distro hop?
I'm just intrested to see peoples opinions here and since this seems like the friendlist community, i wanted to discuss it here.
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