Which of these distros would you prefer to run on your box and why?

Amigo Linux
Arch Linux
Ark Linux
Astaro Security Linux
BSD Variations
Buffalo
cAos
College Linux
Damn Small Linux
Debian
DNA Linux
DyneBolic
Feather
Fedora (Red Hat)
Gentoo
Gnoppix
Java Desktop System
Knoppix
Libranet
Linare
Linspire (Lindows)
Mandrake Linux
Slackware Linux
Slax
Stress
SuSE Linux
Topologilinux
Vector
Yellow Dog
Yoper
Others?
Built From Scratch?

oh jeez, another best distro thread

Fedora - Why? Because its fedora :-)

craigs1987, If you do a search or read our Distro Review section or read through the LQ 2003 Awards you will see what everyone prefers to use. Weirdly, this question crops up, on average, 3 times a day or more - yes, your's is worded slightly differently - do we really, really need yet another thread like this?

The best distro is the one YOU like.

Slackware Linux

Slackware is my favourite, why? Because the first distro I used was RedHat, 2 weeks later after nothing but headaches I got Slackware and never looked back. It does what I want. I use it on my main comp.
Vector is definately the best distro for my laptop though, very small, and leaves me a lot of extra space on my HD (well not really since it was only a 4 gb to start w/) and my gf uses this on her laptop as well.
I carry Slax around in my wallet all the time... Why slax? cuz it fits on a MINI-CDRW, and it uses VESA for it vid. driver for X. Knoppix annoys me. It always tries to guess the best driver to use for X (which would be good), but it hasn't worked on a computer I've tried yet!

You will learn much by trying to understand why this question is ill-posed. It is akin to asking "what is the best chess move?" For most people, there is not a best distro, but rather a best distro at that stage in their familiarity with linux. Most people go through a progression of increasing configuration.

The best distro is the one that does what you need and nothing more. Gentoo is for me .

Ohhhh Slackware...in exactly the same way that Esso is the best type of petrol

moved to the Distributions Forum

Same as my usual answer....or whatever you currently can get your hands on....

I'd vote for Debian. It just works and has everything from a rock solid server (stable) to a potentially unstable bleeding edge distro (Sid).

SuSE for me. Slackware is a big second though...

Come on, give this a guy break!

He just asked a question that is repeated like almost everyday!

OK craigs1987, as you can see there isn't any BEST distro. But there's always YOUR FAVORITE distro.

Mine is Mandrake, and the reason is its hardware recognition. So far I've tried SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Slax, Yoper; and none of them has beaten Mandrake 10.