I belive if you all would try the new Myah 3.0 you would truly
have a new Distro on your desktop.It is great.
http://myah.org

Time for another subtle hint:

SLACKWARE

I voted awhile back, put a lot of thought into it.
This has been my experience. I've been using Linux since around when RedHat 8 came out -- it was in a work setting, and I had to figure out how to configure it for my boss to use. I'm still a total idiot about a lot of it, cause I just don't have a lot of time to sit and mess with things like I want to. Fedora Core 1 was the first distribution I tried on my personal computer (it was a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop) and, unlike Windows, it worked without 2-3 hours of work put into it. It had a few problems, but those could be attributed to the laptop, because they persisted no matter what was installed on it.

At any rate, I fell in love with Fedora Core 1. Fedora Core 2 put an end to that, as suddenly almost none of my hardware was supported at all. But that's alright.

I started trying various distros, and eventually settled on Debian. I used it until 2005, when I got antsy and decided to give Ubuntu 5.10 a shot. Much to my surprise, it recognized everything in that beat up old Inspiron and everything in it just worked. But it was insanely slow, so I ended up mucking my way around into installing Fluxbox on it, and I kept it that way for awhile, until Xubuntu was released.

And I stuck with that until November of last year. Then I finally got a new laptop.

I didn't bother even booting into Windows, I just installed Ubuntu immediately. Why? Well, I expected it to just work. And it did. Well, everything except the headphone jack. But since I'm an adventurous dork who really wants to learn, I decided to try out Gentoo. It took me about 6 hours to get through the installation process. Nothing really worked right, which I know can be attributed to me not knowing what the hell I'm doing. I'm kind of surprised I managed to finish the install, actually.

But here I am again, on Ubuntu. I've had Debian, Fedora, openSuse, Gentoo, Sabayon (hey, I'm not savvy enough for gentoo yet, so I gave it a shot), on here as well, but I settled with Ubuntu even though I'm a bit unsatisfied with it. Or maybe it's just me. I tried Slack, but this laptop (Acer Extensa 4620z, it has a Intel Dual Core 2 processor in it) doesn't let anything install that isn't 64-bit. Anyhow...

When somebody asked me awhile back which Linux distribution they should try first, I suggested Ubuntu. It feels different enough from Windows to give them a different experience, and has excellent community support that almost rivals LQ. Plus if any problems came up (which they did) I knew I'd be able to help them through it easy enough. Which I did.

So what's that leave me to vote for, basically? Only Debian and Ubuntu seem to want to work for me, and Ubuntu has better repositories and support. It's also making Linux a viable alternative to people dissatisfied with Windows and introducing them to the world of Linux. Whether they stick with Ubuntu or not, that's a good thing. It feels like Ubuntu isn't the best distribution out there, but it's made a bigger impact on Linux as whole in the last couple of years than any other. So it got my vote.

64 bit is 32 bit compatible and you could have tried Slamd64 instead of stock slackware

Yeah, yeah, everybody says it -- just tell that to my laptop that freezes up anytime anything 32-bit goes anywhere near it.

Ubuntu Hands down, Great Distro, VERY Popular, almost anything Linux can be run on it and it's based off Debian, what more can you want?

I'm conflicted. I run both Slackware and Sabayon on physical installations, and quite a few others in virtual installs. I can't quite decide which one is better - where I am concerned. Both Slackware and Sabayon work very well for me (strangely enough, Gentoo doesn't really) and others like Ubuntu, Fedora, Freespire and so on are good but don't strike my fancy.

Can I vote for two distros??

What processor are you using? Bet it's not an Opteron. AMD Opterons are very good at handling 32 and 64 bit software. Then again I'm a bit biased as I'm a fan of AMD processors.

I saw Ubuntu on somebody's laptop doing fine. I also use Ubuntu on my desktop with AMD64, and the only problem I had to solve was Java plugin for 64bit Firefox - I finally installed 32bit version of Firefox and 32bit plugin, now I'm happy. Also under wine I use couple of 32 Windows applications without any problems.

It's an Intel Dual Core 2. I believe an AMD Opteron WOULD do better, as I agree with you that AMD makes a better product.

Well sure. I said that's what I'm running, too. I kept the 64-bit Firefox and used ndiswrapper for 32-bit plugins not available in 64-bit. For some reason I have fewer problems that way.

Do you mean nspluginwrapper? Ndiswrapper if for Windows wireless wrapper.

Ha, yeah that too.

I (obviously) confuse similarly named things very easily.

Ubuntu is still slow, crash prone and still silly starting from the very interfaces. PC Linux OS[/b] beats Ubuntu for very much reasons... I am still amazed: I had to remove Ubuntu from my mother's laptop and she went crazy of happiness with PC Linux OS! That system beats Ubuntu no matter if Ubuntu is popular mainly for a well done marketing [...] If my end-user-mom noticed the difference so fast and I do too I am sure that distro will have a very good place this or the next year.

However, my best wishes are for Gentoo, no matter if PC Linux OS in my mother's laptop had Gnome 2.21 working flawlessly... I am still awaiting for the "bleeding edge" XD

As I said previously... What the heck is a Desktop? XD

Really, the "end user" experience should evolve, look at the big proposals of Ion and its counterpart Xmonad this days, it is incredible that many people judges so easily upon the basic Mac guidelines. Who needs a desktop anyway?

Slackware suits my computing needs quite well.