Suse 64 Bit

hell, gentoo followed closely by slackware & dsl.

ive tried mandrake 10, fedora c4, knoppix 3.6, dsl, slackware, ubuntu, suse 10oss and gentoo.

with the worst being suse 10 oss (by a long shot) then knoppix or mandrake.

an idea for a catorgry would be "worst distro of the year"
there's my 2 cents for my first year of linux
/weed

Gentoo Linux is my favorite!

Debian, it does everything I need it for

IMO that's one of the pro's of Arch and one of the things which drove me to Arch - I don't have to sneak after -dev packages to compile something, everything just works. If you use ABS you'll end up having to install the -dev packages anyway...

As my fluxbox menu title say {} sLaCk || sLacK _)_ with other words love slack or slack f**k

I like ArchLinux because it's like my favorite: Gentoo - but no extra compile time!
It's Gentoo for know but who knows? Arch seems good enough for my usual use - desktop.
I stay with Gentoo because of portage and because I have the source code and can customize the code compilation to my needs/arch.

CentOs is my new fav.

SimplyMEPIS 3.3

Ubuntu (Actuallu, KUbuntu for me).

I'll add another vote for adding kanotix to this list. I know it is in the LiveCD category already, but then again, Mepis, Knoppix, Ubunto all are/have LiveCDs as well.

Kanotix is a great LiveCD, but it is even better installed. Can it be added please?

I'm going to go with.....Ubuntu

Voted Arch. Control of slack without spending all day compiling to stay bleeding edge. Anything that's not in regular is in testing/unstable, if not there then the AUR, if not there then making a PKGBUILD yourself is a breeze. I doubt I ever could have gotten Xorg7 working on my own on Slack. Only problem with arch is it's a bit harder to mess with the kernel.

Slackware is a close second, though, if you want stability there's no other way to go. Plus Arch won't run on an old machine (i686 optimized). I have a Pentium II 400 that I have running slackware, no GUI whatsoever, lighttpd + php + mysql, leave mutt, snownews and naim/bsflite screened and SSH in. Occasionally use w3m or elinks for browsing if I'm in my room. I have probably made more use out of that computer than when it was brand new and used by my university, and they sold it to me for $12 .

After that I haven't tried much else, I've only been using Linux for about 6 months. I put Zenwalk on my sister's computer, it works well, also tried Vector but didn't like it. Ubuntu/Kubuntu aren't minimalist enough for me, I tried them for around 1 day each before finding a real distro (slack).

no mention of the loaded aLinux
nor
the high performance low requirement Zenwalk
both much better than Slackware.
Non preconfigured tuxes dont cut it, why spend a week configuring your system to be substandard.
Should have polls for the most needy configuration tux or most bloated tux, too many falling over each other to pick from there.

Well I have tried just about all of the distros in the last couple of years. there are quite a few goood distros out there that are pretty stable. Slackware is always on some partition in my house. Vector Linux SOHO is cool,fast.
Been playing with ubuntu this week, the "automatix" script that kid wrote for ubuntu is the bomb, saved me a lot of time compiling all the multimedia stuff (well sometimes I get lazy)
I haven't used gnome for awhile so I wanted to see where it was at, ubuntu is ok I don't really care for deb distros.
NOW FOR THE WINNER!! flatout, of the box kick ass distro is....
PCLINUXOS Everthing works, great control center, there is no distro alive that can configure my graphics card and screen perfectly and thats without even asking me what I'm packin.
Texstar has done some great work with this distro