[clue-talk] best/worst/most interesting distro?

[Mike Bean]

Arch is number 8 I think.  It sort of has a "harder then fedora, not as
hard as gentoo/slackware" sort of reputation.  Seems a little curious,
like most of the top 6 have corporate backers.  Canonical for Ubuntu,
Red Hat for Fedora, Novell for SUSE.  I know the money's got to come
from somewhere, but I do think it's interesting that frequently the most
heavily used distros are the ones with the greatest funding.


On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:56 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:13 -0600, Mike Bean wrote:
> > Question, was reading the thread about multiboots in the tech
> > partition, got curious.  Thought I'd better ask over here, because
> > at the end of the day, the answer to the question is largely
> > subjective and a matter of personal taste. (not a technical matter)
> > 
> > I keep an eye on distrowatch, and I don't think it'll shock anyone
> > to assert that most people use the to 6 or so distros on their list,
> > both at home and at work, but I got a little curious.  Someone's
> > using those other distros, somewhere...  So I thought I'd just come
> > over and ask for opinions,  what's your best/worst/most interesting
> > distro?  What do you use at home?  Provided there are those of us
> > out there, who don't automatically use Ubuntu.
> > 
> > (I ask partly out of curiousity, and partly out vague hope that'll
> > give people an excuse to bring up a distro I haven't seen before
> > they find interesting, so I can check it out!)
> > 
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> I use Arch Linux.  I don't know if it is one of the top 6.  Probably
> not. 
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