hi,

i have seen god knows how many distroX Vs DistroY and my distros better then yours and things like that. every one always argues over what is the best distro but i have never seen what is the worst distro. so this is more like "my distro's worse then yours"

in my mind i cannot make my mind up between 2 distro's one has a a few reasons and the other for some reason that i dont know why i just hate it! and thats mandrake dont ask my why i just dont like it

the the distro i dont like for a few reasons is fedora because i dont think it is a very good distro for beginners or anybody for that matter

when you install fedora it has no MP3 support which newbies dont want the hassle of getting about 700 dependancies to play an MP3. whan you download an RPM and try to install it you cant because you need to install another 3-4 RPMs before you can install the first! so you download them and they also need another 4-5 other RPMs installed before you can install the first package and before you know it you have downloaded about 70 RPMs and the first wan still wont install. also with fedora it doesn't install gcc by default so when people start getting comfortable with a CLI and decide to start compiling there own programs they cant and dont have a clue what gcc is. plus i think fedora is over bloated

well thats just my opinion any way

what is you least favorite or worst distro and why?

berrance

I don't have a least fave distro as such, more that I have less favor for any rpm based distros.

At the risk of starting the holy war of Linux, Gentoo is my distribution of choice. I've never had to hunt for dependencies to something. Want to install Gnome? 'emerge gnome' and let it do the work. Want k3b, but it needs kde libs? 'emerge k3b'. There are graphical frontends for emerge that are becoming popular. I think the only thing Gentoo lacks (for new users) is a nice clean built-in installer. Granted, we have a very verbose installation guide, but newbies like a program to do it for them.

gentoo is a distro i have been wanting to try for ages now but never have the time to try any distro now, fedora might have changed now as the last time i used it was when it was FC1 but i arnt even going to attempt to try it

Man you got some nasty os's dude, Windows XP, 98, 2000 etc? Windows doesnt derserve to be mentioned on any linux site/forum.

My favourite overall is probably Suse 8.2/9.1

i have to use windows for some things unfortanaitly but my network servers is mid way through a majer overhaul and all of them will be runing SLES9 instead of a mix when its all finished

and your favourite distro SUSE i thought i would never hear that from a Debian user got to say slacware is my favourite

Oh i see what you mean, sorry i have to admit it's a pain in the ass when some shit is windows exclusive, as for suse been my favourite, yes i am full of suprises, i respect all types of linux even if debian is a veteran os.

The worst distribution I have used is Mandrake 10, not that its bad or inadequate it just doesn't fulfill my needs. On the surface it seems more bloated than XP, there are a million and one daemons running which you don't need and the stupidly large icons and text on the default themes are ridiculous. However I have only used a small number of distributions (redhat, fedora, mandrake, suse, debian, slackware) so there are probably worse distros out there.

Seen as he brought it up ^^, whilest I don't agree they are 'nasty' os's, they aren't a linux distribution so don't need to be stated, likewise on any Windows fourm I wouldn' expect linux to be listed among the versions of Windows used.

hey i irnt the only person who lists windows in ther distro's some other users do

As the linux wallpaper states:

Mess with the Best, Die Like The Rest!

Ive had the "pleasure" of using windows twice dual boot, and its pure dog shit.

Whats slackware like anyway

My favorite distro is any distro which will end these idiotic repetitive threads. Does this topic really need to be started over again every other day? Are you people really SO bored that you need to rehash this tired topic again, and again, and again?

BTW there is NO new twist on this tired old topic. This debate has been raging since 1995 or so, no one will ever degree, and it only leads to driving new users AWAY from running Linux.

Holy shit, we have the intellectual here, well really does it feed your joy and excitement to post replys to threads that are equivlent of bullshit with all the trimmings.

I suppose you havent noticed that these posts dont count anymore asshole, so this thread really doesnt emphiase anyone, except the moaning bitch like you.

When I was beginning, it was a great distro for me. In fact, it was such a great distro, that almost a year after I started with Linux now, I'm still using it. Haven't tried anything else. If I had a spare computer to tinker with, I would try a few other distros, but Fedora is working fantastically for me.
Did you never hear of yum? I had no problem at all installing mp3 support for xmms and rythmbox. I typed 'yum install xmms-mp3', and, wow! mp3 support in my prefered (at the time, but no longer) multimedia app. No pesky dependancies to deal with, 'cause yum handled it all for me. In fact, if I remember correctly, I don't think there were any dependancies needed, but if there were, as I said, I didn't have to worry about them.

Anyway, since Fedora's the only distro I've used, I can't say I have a least favorite, 'cause I really like Fedora.
Actually, that's not true. I've tried to install Familiar Linux on my iPAQ twice now, and it still didn't support my hardware properly, and was an amazing hassle to try and figure out. So, I suppose that would have to be my least favorite distro.

Yeah I use yum, apt and synaptic alot, I recently formatted my hd, and lost all my kick ass source lists. Got a copy?