My Favorite Linux Distro

Posted 11 months ago at 12:26 pm. 0 comments

I’ve been using Linux on and off for about a year now. While I still use Windows XP as my main operating system, I have a relatively old computer with a 1.6Ghz Intel P4. I have tried a number of distros on it. Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small, and Arch Linux. I like Arch the most. It runs the quickest, feels the most configurable, and is on a rolling release cycle with packages that aren’t frozen as in Debian. Before Arch, I liked Debian the most. It was very easy to set up, and had an awesome package management system (Aptitude). Arch however, has a very similar package management system (Pacmac). I thought ubuntu was really cool, EXTREMELY easy to set up and use as a desktop. The reason I didn’t like it is because it was just an even more simplified version of Debian, and I wanted to try something different, not to mention I SSH into the machine many times more than I VNC into it. I have learned so much about Linux over the past year I feel very comfortable with the command line doing almost anything. Arch Linux is my favorite distro out of all that I have tried for what I use it for. The only thing that was problematic for me was setting up xorg. The video card in the machine is an old Nvidia Vanta. It was troublesome for me getting the xorg.conf set up and working. But hey, it was my first time, Debian , Ubuntu, and DSL did it automatically.

Anyways, whats your favorite Linux distro? Comment this post and tell us why!