I figured I'd ask to gain people's opinion on which distro is the best. I currently use Kubuntu 16.10 and it's ok.

The first distro I used was Ubuntu 16.04, then Mint 17, then Elementary OS, then back to Mint 18 before accidentally breaking it, and now I'm on Kubuntu XD.

Slackware.

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• Arch Linux is the best desktop linux. (Use openbox, tint2 and dmenu)
• Centos/Rhel is the best server linux.
• Blackarch is the best pentesting distro.
• The best 'from source' distros is either LFS or Gentoo.
• The best 'firewall' distro is OpenBSD or possibly PFSense.
• The best 'minilinux' is Tinylinux.
• The best 'gpl linux' is Trisquel.
• The best support for linux is with RedHat
• The best wiki for linux is Arch Linux
• My least favorite distro is Ubuntu.

My first was either OpenBSD 2 or Caldera OpenLinux Lite.

If you stick around, LQ is doing member choice awards which will cover the best server/desktop distros.

First was Fedora Core 4 and that sort of hooked me. I have tried Open SUSE, Ubuntu, Slackware & BLAG but I end up coming back to Fedora which, for me, is the best

LibraNet linux was the first I ever got online successfully with. Therefore, my first linux that I used as a day-to-day OS. It is LONG since no longer developed.

Slackware. Since then, I've used Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, and Magiea regularly and many others in Virtual Machines, but I always come back to Slackware.

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RedHat v4 (pre-Fedora)

openSUSE 9.3 (officially) but I count Mepis Linux as my first main distro that i used full time

My 1st on this screaming mimi piece of gear.

I ran a wireless Netgear wireless b pcmcia card that was built before wpa was even invented. 16 bit pcmcia. The internet was a tamer beast then,

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Index of /slackware/slackware-3.0

Hello and welcome to the forum

Ubuntu 5.10 was the first distribution I used on a daily basis on my personal system.

Regards...

Linspire or Knoppix. I can't remember if I saw a Knoppix live session before or after I picked up that Linspire notebook.

As for which distro is best, in my opinion there is no "best" distro.

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TurboLinux

Wasn't turbolinux the one that you'd get inside various magazines in the late 90's? I have at least one Turbo Linux v6.0 CD in my collection of old software, and I don't remember where it came from.

First isn't necessarily best! My first distro was Red Hat 6. This was the original Red Hat, pre-Fedora. But most of my binary distros since have been Debian-based.

@szboardstretcher. The best source-based distro in my opinion is Crux. It has a simple internal structure and boots very fast. Also it uses reasonably up-to-date but stable software. To cope with Gentoo, you must be willing to live on the bleeding edge and do daily updates. LFS is a special case. I've become very fond of it but you can't compare installable distros with something that you have to build yourself.