Does your distro of choice reflects you?
 

Hi, linux fans

As their are many distributions of linux out there, some distributions are aim at power users, intermediate users and the novice. Do you choose your linux distro by any of the three types of users mentioned above?

I like to use linux distros that are for power users. You learn a whole lot of linux and system config files with these types of distros. There is no hand holding with these types of distros. You got to have a good amount of linux knowledge when installing and configuring these types of distros,but I like them because it fun and sometimes challenging.

-later

ok , my take ...

i tend to choose distro by the impression of the name they give me ...

for example ... i thought suse is a japanese product , and i also thought that debian would be overtly political because of the "ian" at the back which is somewhat going against my kind of ideology ... and more recently i thought gentoo got something to do with toothpaste ...

but when i came across this redhat ... no need thinking and no need reasons , just grab it ...



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I just flip a coin.

I've tried many and settled on the one I liked that I liked the most, the thought that I was using a power/intermediate/novice user distro didn't enter my head. FreeBSD fits me needs for servers and Arch suits me for workstations.

I swap distros whenever I get an attack of distrohopperitis (incurable). I'm not bothered if whatever distro I'm using is regarded as one for a "newbie", "intermediate", "power-user", whatever. I like Slackware, I like Debian, I like Ubuntu, etc. None of them reflect my personality - that was formed long before I started using a computer.

Use what gets the job done. I'm a novice and I use CLFS because I feel more in control of my own destiny with CLFS than other distros I've used. Some guy named Linus Torvalds claims to be a power user and in a recent interview stated that he's never used Debian because it's too hard to install. Don't judge a geek by his distro and don't judge a distro by it's user-base.

Interesting question though...

Your distro reflects how much free time you have. I loved Slackware back in College, but now I just dont have time to spend a whole weekend setting up a computer, so I pick "newbie" distros for my new systems.

I started using redhat back in 1998, and have RHEL on servers at work, so I haven't really changed. I tried Ubuntu and Gentoo, and I use a lot of the specialty distros, like DSL and openWRT, but I always seem to gravitate back to RH/Fedora for my main machines.

I started out in linux sometime in '93 with Slackware, then moved to RedHat (version 1 or 2 not sure) until version 9. Moved to Debian, played with Ubuntu a bit, Gentoo, Sorcerer, Knoppix,RHEL/CentOS. I just finished torrenting the latest Slack (12) havent done anything with Slack since kernel version 1.2.8. I played a bit with Freebsd, I actually liked NetBSD.

I have been all over the place, I think my favorite is Debian (been my primary os now for 4 years or so). But the itch has come over me and I'm gonna try a little slack for a while. Not sure what that says about me, but I don't care. :-)

Very interesting question.

I don't think that there even is a distro that reflects my personality.
I'm a programming addict who hates programms that decided on what I should be doing hence I cant stand kdevelop but I also have a strong taste for simple aesthetics which means that (in theory) I like working with IDE's since I can access everything to gether.

This extends to the OS as well.
I should have on that is very easy to use and intuitive but also is customisable and powerfull.

I'm an elitist, a jerk, and a political junkie, so naturally, I use Debian.

I like a distribution that "just works", and is easy to upgrade whenever a new version comes out (performing a clean install is not considered upgrading in my mind). I've found that most distributions nowadays mostly works, but most of them mostly don't upgrade cleanly either.

And you're honest.
:D

I use the distribution that works the easiest for me. I can always tweak later if the default config does not suit me. That's how I chose to continue using Mandriva after all those years.

If I was to use a distribution that reflects me, I'd use LFS, but then I'd need a big amount of something that is much too rare in my life: free time.

Yves.

Thanks for your replies.

I hope you didn't misinterpreted my thread that geeks should only use linux for power users, and newbies should only use easy distros. What I meant was your skilled level with computers and networking, not your personality. You should use what ever you like. That's why linux is so cool because their is a linux distro for each one's taste. I use slackware as my main OS, but I have a partition for testing different distros. Right now, I have PClinuxOS 2007 dual booted with slackware.

:)