Can you suggest any distros to me?

h3x0r · 04-29-2007, 06:27 AM

hey yea i would recomment ubuntu or xubuntu, also have a look at:

http://polishlinux.org/choose/compar...distro2=Fedora

Comparison between what i think are the top 2 distros

bobreeves · 04-29-2007, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by gejr

I've been using Ubuntu for 7-8 months and I love it. Now I'd like to try some more distros though. I think Ubuntu is slower than Windows, and that's my biggest concern about it.

I have tried a LOT of distros lately but either I don't get them to work, or I don't like them for one reason or another.

I want the distro to be:
- NOT bloated. I don't need 6 different text editors etc.
- Fast!
- A decent community is preferred as I tend to need a lot of help :#

I've tried these more or less:

- OpenSuse 11: I liked the install..It was pretty bloated and I found it hard to go from Ubuntu's beautiful apt-get to yast2.
- Gentoo: I've been interested in this one, but I always get stuck at some problem. Can't get my wireless to work, or it won't install at all. I've tried it on 3 computers. Can't get to the bottom of its install.
- PCLinuxOS: Boring imo..Too simple, and it's bloated.
- Sabayon: My closest experience with Gentoo..It worked, but it was the most bloated distro I've seen.
- Arch Linux: I really really WISH I could try this one out. Sounds great, but I never managed to get X installed. Always some errors with pacman. Guess I'm not experienced enough for this one.
- Fedora Core: Boooooring, buggy, and bloated.
- Debian Etch 4.0: Felt like a really bad replacement for Ubuntu. Slow, heavy and complicated.

Now..What's left to try? Any suggestions are very very welcome!

Have a look at Parsix - a Debian Knoppix knockoff. Very lean, excellent hardware detection, did not have the sound and wireless detection problems that every0version of Ubuntu that I tried did (including 7.04), did not have to un-install Network Mangler to talk to my wireless router, and available as LiveCD to try out first. If you like it, make it look and behave like any other Distro. Runs Beryl and VMWare Server fine.