Comments on: 4 Recommended Linux Distros To Help You Choose The Right One For You

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2011 04:51:00 +0000

Arch is great, although installation is long-winded for new users who just want to get up and going. However, if you don’t mind following instructions, it will give you a clean stable system without the addon junk most distros give you. It is the OS for tinkerers — rather than engineers, which is what Slackware seems to be. Give me package management any day! Despite all this, I’m still an avid Ubuntu user; I’m a tinkerer, but I’m also lazy.

By: Joshan

Joshan — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:30:00 +0000

now someone argue about why gentoo wasn’t chosen instead of arch for the complex “learning tool” linux

gentoo should come with a gun to kill yourself with if you are considering installing it

(except in gentoo style, it would be a shoddy manual about smelting your own metal and an outdated pamphlet on making your own gunpowder)

By: Lott11slott

Lott11slott — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:48:00 +0000

Yes Ubuntu is an OS that is ease to install so is Mint, but at list Mint has drivers for video cards.
But Ultimate Edition 2.8 or 2.9 have every thing that most people would need, like Ubuntu Tweak, and Ultamatix, backup manager, computer janitor, software for programing & editing.
all code for audio, video, flash players for the web, like chromium & Firefox and 28 other Internet Applications.
Audio & Video 40 applications, such editing, managing, burning, importing & exporting, most everything that you would need to do now days.
Office Productivity 19 applications, graphics 19 applications, wine is already installed, and so so much more.
And if you like a LTS version there Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 and a Real lite Version Ultimate Edition 2.8 lite-x86 that works great on old equipment and Net tablets.
Compiz fusion & Emerald are installed by default its multi lingual, it has more to offer it is live CD or use UNetbootin to installed on USB stick.
There are very few things that most people even need to install after using this OS.
But if they need it they can use Synaptic to install any thing that is missing for there choice.
Yes Mint those have some of this applications but not all of them.
Yes I am distro junky for a few years well 12 years, but UE has most applications people need out of the bat.

By: Jcrowdus

Jcrowdus — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:57:00 +0000

What about Puppy Linux? Small fast easy to use. Makes it where you can use that old desktop again!

By: Frank Schmeisser

Frank Schmeisser — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:27:00 +0000

I have tried many distros since starting out with Ubuntu in 2006. Generally, I start out with older slower hardware and make it fly with lean distros. My favorite one is little-known Vector Linux, a Slackware-based marvel that is very stable and fast with an XFCE desktop. If you need a screamer to revive 10-year-old plus hardware, try Puppy Linux. I use the live version on usb to fix Windows problems, recover data files, or re-partition hard drives. For full service distros I recommend PCLinuxOS and MEPIS. Just my two cents…

By: Victor_dugas

Victor_dugas — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:56:00 +0000

For starters, Ubuntu is not just for beginners…it is a very clean, happening distro. I chose Ubuntu because it was easy to use AND I can make it do most anything I wish and it looks fantastic…it is thousands of times more stable then winblows, much safer in terms of hacking and virii infection and much lighter then winblows in terms of resources. Mandriva generally sucked as did Fedora. Open SuSe has it’s uses and Arch…well I haven’t found a proper use for that distro. In short, Ubuntu has more bang for your buck…and it’s free (as it 99% of other distros). If your looking to get up and running fast, be able to do pretty much anything you want on your system, have a system that is 99% out-of-the-box driver-wise, have practically tens of thousands of free programs that work with it, works well with winblows software (if you must) with the use of Wine and want a system with the most up-time I have ever seen…one that is virtually impervious to virii/hacker infection…then Ubuntu is the right choice.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:38:00 +0000

KDE 4 has too many issues with networking. I recommend Linux Mint.

By: rAX

rAX — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:19:00 +0000

Basically a Chinese XP :)

By: Ned

Ned — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:17:00 +0000

Ah yes, time for a weekly bestest distro post.

Distros hopping is for people who know what theyre doing.

Joe Blow needs only to make one decision: WHICH desktop to use.

Asking him to look at 3 distros with the same desktop is mindless since lets face it, most distros look the same. Oooh, this distro has a radical wallpaper, or icon or font…is not enought to differentiate.

Give a person a GNOME, a KDE and a default XCFE if its old hardware and have THEM decide.

But people dont want to do that because everyone is possessive about ‘their’ distro.

By: Gman

Gman — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:24:00 +0000

By: Danny Stieben

Danny Stieben — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:23:00 +0000

I left out Mandriva from the list for a couple of reasons. You can scroll up in the comments to find them.

As for KDE, I don’t directly mention the words KDE, but openSUSE has a “different desktop environment” (KDE) by default, and in Arch you have the choice from the start; there is no default there.

By: Danny Stieben

Danny Stieben — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:20:00 +0000

I have to agree with Snewlon that openSUSE is definitely still alive. Ubuntu is taking a lot of the attention away from a lot of other distros, but openSUSE is still going strong.

By: Danny Stieben

Danny Stieben — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:18:00 +0000

That’s definitely true. Linux Mint was also on my mind when writing this article, but I chose Ubuntu instead because Mint is still based off of Ubuntu.

By: Danny Stieben

Danny Stieben — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Like I said, there really are a handful (and then some) of distros that are definitely noteworthy enough to be on the list, but I don’t want that list to be a mile long. I chose Arch as the “learning” choice simply because there is amazing documentation for it, and the Arch community is rapidly growing because there are a _lot_ of people who like it.

By: Carl Draper

Carl Draper — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:07:00 +0000

yup, it’s fugly…