I do think it's interesting that the responses haven't been what I thought they'd be. I assumed we'd be a smaller sample of the population as a whole, but we've had at least as many people answer that their distribution of choice is one outside of the top six, as people inside the top six. I would certainly agree that the diversity is part of the appeal.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Maxwell Spangler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maxlists@maxwellspangler.com">maxlists@maxwellspangler.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:13 -0600, Mike Bean wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> I keep an eye on distrowatch, and I don't think it'll shock anyone to<br>
> assert that most people use the to 6 or so distros on their list, both<br>
> at home and at work, but I got a little curious. Someone's using<br>
> those other distros, somewhere... So I thought I'd just come over and<br>
> ask for opinions, what's your best/worst/most interesting distro?<br>
> What do you use at home? Provided there are those of us out there,<br>
> who don't automatically use Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
</div>I use Fedora at home and have been using Fedora and Redhat consistently<br>
for many, many years. It is my personal reference point as to what<br>
Linux should be and I've been very happy with it.<br>
<br>
I'm now using Ubuntu at work for a personal workstation and Redhat<br>
Enterprise and SuSE among others. Ubuntu is equal to Fedora plus<br>
slightly easier access to software and settings that make a more<br>
comfortable personal environment. I'm really enjoying it and I<br>
appreciate the innovations they've made.<br>
<br>
I've always heard about various Linux distributions but have never felt<br>
they had a compelling reason to leave. Many of us left Slackware way<br>
back when because Redhat had rpm support and that clearly made the<br>
distribution better. But without a killer app, I don't see a need to<br>
try the smaller distributions.<br>
<br>
We should all be very thankful that we have so much to choose from and<br>
can find such rewards in something developed cooperatively and offered<br>
for free.<br>
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