I had Ubuntu loaded but decided to try other distro's. Big mistake. Fedora Suse and Mandriva. Fedora and Suse would not recognise my broadband connection and mandriva would not load because it could not figuire out my 19 inch wide screen and all I got was half of the information. Ubuntu wins.

Terry

Im hooked on Ubuntu

You've made a good choice with Ubuntu. I readily recommend it to Linux user, particularly the about to be Windows converts. I recommend that when adding applications you always look in Ubuntu repositories first and use the one that's there. Its much more fool proof that way and insures you have .deb packages set up for Ubuntu and not Debian. Come time to upgrade to new release you will be surer of a successful trouble free upgrade. I'd also favor using the GUI over the command line for making changes. Until you become adept at CLI use the command line to examine rather than change. There are those times where you may need to compile a driver because that's the only way it'll be available.

I have used Mandrake, Fedora Core, Gentoo... I'm fluent in command line, I'm not afraid of ./configure, make, make install...

This distro doesn't interfere with me, works very well, no dependency hell, nice package manager, cleans itself, update itself, no maintenance required. Update madwifi, update firefox, install xmms, and you have the best distro there is.

There is just two complaints on my side:
1. Brown
2. Madwifi seems to be broken out of the box.

You get used to brown (though you can change it, if you want to... I'm too lazy), and updating madwifi is a piece of cake...

Ubuntu is the best...

I use Xubuntu because it's not KDE, not ugly Gnome brown and it's a deb derivative distro. I might actually use Ubuntu with its default Gnome desktop if it wasn't for that brown.

bluesman2333:
Are you following me around?

I did try Xubuntu, looks like a nice compact distro. However, I miss KDE, I might try Kubuntu next, I'm hoping it'll work better than last time. For now, I don't feel like changing anything, works as it is.

Did you actually spend time with these distros? The issues you mention here seem to be minor configuration problems that can happen on any Linux distro and can be easily resolved. I would have been quite happy to help you fix the the problems, but I don't see any threads from you that ask about the problems you experienced with these distros.

reddazz:
It worked out of the box for him, and that's what he was looking for I suppose...

There is only one distro for which it makes sense to switch from Ubuntu.

The distro we move to not from.

Working out of the box sounds awful good to me. Do we measure the quality of a distro by how difficult it is to get working? More difficult ='s better, I think not.

Some of us do believe that if including proprietary software is the cost of ease of use, that cost is too dear.

I respect your opinion but don't share it. Although I'd think we're in agreement that the Microsoft/Novell deal is disgusting. Combining free and proprietary tools to get the job done is acceptable to me. Making a deal with the devil isn't. For me Linux isn't a following it's the best possible tool to do what I need. Fortunately for both of us we both can find the distro that meets our individual requirements. It would seem to me that freedom of choice is a big part of open source.

I suppose so. For a long time now, I've never had any Linux distro, BSD or Solaris fail to work out of the box, but then again, I try not to use hardware thats very new or obscure.

I presume you are a broadbamd user. I switched from MDK 9.2 to Ubuntu 5.10 and after a lot of searching finally found out how to get the dialup working. When I installed 6.10 the network config box no longer has a connect button. I ordered Mandriva 2007 from Linux central and the install was painless as always and everything works. The installer configures the modem connection and asks if the user can control it. The install is not as fast as it was but 45 minutes after starting I was on line. It's not perfect by any means but would be much easier for a newbie than Ubuntu. MDK/Mandrive 10.0 through 2006 woul not work on my system. Don.

See, it all boils down to YOUR personal hardware, and how hard you want to work to get a distro going. 99% of the time though, with enough work, any distro can be made to work on any PC 100%. Its just having the know how(or finding those with it) to get it there.

I loved Mandrake 10.0, worked almost perfectly. I only switched to Ubuntu, because I couldn't get my TV card to work. Got it working in 6.06, then Mandriva 07 came out. I was never more disappointed in a Linux distro than Mandriva 07. It was absolutely awful. EXTREMELY slow, constantly logging me out for no apparent reason (likely some hardware issue), it was EXTREMELY slow, it was KDE(ugh!), it was EXTREMELY slow... I switched back to Ubuntu 6.06(then shortly thereafter, installed 6.10)after about 9 days and said never again, Ubuntu is where I'll stay(or Fedora Core, I liked FC5)

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