SUSE is your 1st choice- What's 2nd?

aquatux · 12-18-2006, 11:16 PM

I would like to ask those who have Suse as their favorite to pick a runner up distribution. I have Suse 9.3 and openSUSE 10.2. I'm looking for another one to try but only have experience with Suse. I would like the opinion of those who has tried others and found Suse the best.

My poll picks those that have the most active sub-forums here at LQ.

slackass · 12-18-2006, 11:50 PM

I've tried:
Suse 10.0 (my first distro, great 4 noobies, everything just works!)
Suse 10.1 retail box (sucked) & 10.1 RM (updater worked, sucked a little less).
SUSE 10.2 GM (works great).
Fedora C5 & C6,
Mandriva 2007 free
Ubuntu 6.10

My favorites are:
Suse 10.2 GM
Suse 10.0
Ubuntu 6.10 (new release/has some shot comings)

On my box now are:
Suse 10.2, Ubuntu 6.10, & eX Pee

stasik · 12-20-2006, 04:43 AM

1.suse 10.2 (the best)
2.gentoo
3.ubuntu

also check http://distrowatch.com/

fogcat · 12-20-2006, 03:42 PM

I've tried the rest (all listed anyways, plus a few). Suse's the best. A deb varient comes in second although I can't overly reccomend any of them since they for the most part work quite well.

Perps · 12-21-2006, 06:53 PM

Currently running two machines with 10.2 on one and Ubuntu 6.1 on the other. I tried Mandrake 10.1 Official, but found Ubuntu to be the superior choice.

Easy,

- Perps.

aquatux · 12-26-2006, 01:02 PM

Mandriva is in first place followed by Ubuntu. I'm leaning toward Ubuntu right now.

xbennyboy · 12-26-2006, 04:17 PM

I've tried mepis, ubuntu, fedora 5, and suse 9.3-10.2

Personally, ubuntu is my second. The deb package system works great on it, but I absolutely abhor its lack of good configuration tools (6.10 is even more lacking as they got rid of the disk mounting tool). Setting up WPA with ndiswrapper is an absolute pain and the best solution for it is so hacky beyond belief. Why they don't have WPA support in networking tools is beyond me.

Mepis is alright, its similar to ubuntu. However, the packages are usually quite far behind the latest versions. Took them a while to upgrade from XFree86 to Xorg.

For Fedora, I downloaded all 5 isos, and used them for about an hour before erasing my harddisk. Problem was: I couldn't access the package manager without connecting to the internet. But I needed to access the package manager to get the internet working. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place.