mikshaw
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Posted: July 01 2006,14:04 |
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I agree that it depends mostly on what you need, and what you want from your system. Personally I'd recommend setting up multiple partitions, if you have the disk space for it, and install a few different distros at the same time. Either that or download a bunch of live CDs. In this way you can continue to use more than one distro for a while instead of removing one in order to try another. You may be able to do a better job of comparing them.
I've got Suse, Slackware, and 3 versions of DSL on my harddrive, and i use all of them...they each have their strong and weak points. I use Suse mostly, because it was installed long before the others and I have tweaked it and installed everything i want, unlike the others which are constantly evolving toward that level of customization. However, Suse is fat and somewhat buggy & unreliable at times (particularly since i had once used it as a software testing station a lot), and when I get sick of that I go to the faster and more reliable (though less featured and "user-friendly") Slackware. DSL is a whole different animal, from my point of view. It is not often used as my normal desktop, although it does get used nearly every day. DSL to me is the equivalent of those self-contained electronics kits where you wire and rewire various projects....I use it to test things that I don't want to risk on a less forgiving permanently-installed system, and to learn more about "what happens when i do this..."
So....yeah....as everyone else who has responded to a "which distro is best" question, my best advice is to try as many as you can, and go with what suits your needs. Sorry, but no one can tell you what's best for you.
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