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

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

That reputation is deserved. You only get a command-line distro after installing. You need to install X, GNOME, etc, yourself. The result is a lot less clutter and you have what you want. It also means you need to have some knowledge of Linux. I don't recommend it for beginners, but I sometimes recommend it to more savvy users. 

As to why some are the most popular, I can think of a few reasons. Some people only want to use one of the leaders. That's a valid concern. A minor distro could disappear. The major distros might also be more polished and have a bigger repository. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Bean" <beandaemon at gmail.com> 
To: "CLUE talk" <clue-talk at cluedenver.org> 
Sent: Monday, October 4, 2010 10:42:55 PM 
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] best/worst/most interesting distro? 


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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