Hi, I'm pretty new to Linux. I've started out with Mandrake 9.1 and am having a few problems with it. Don't know if this is a touchy subject but is there any one distribution that is further ahead than the others in terms of a bug-free user interface and desktop environment? Mandrake 9.1 seems quite buggy to me.

Thanks alot!

Mark

Gentoo has been the best for me but it can be a bitch to install (time wise), took all day on 1 system and 2 days on another. good thing about gentoo is you dont have to worry about wating on the next version to come out. if u want the lastest gentoo:

emerge sync
emerge -u world


edit:

the reason it takes so long to install is becasue you compile everything from source code (starting with glib and the compiler itself). You can install from a CD and skip the compile process but it kinda takes away from the whole point of going with Gentoo in the 1st place.

http://www.gentoo.org

[Please don't post the same things in several forums]

Redhat 9 has fewer bugs in term of Interface and x-windows environment.

I have no comments on other distro debian, suse, gentoo as I don't really use them. I perfer freeBSD(not linux) for some reasons.