which linux distribution should i choose?

[Super_mario666]

oh oh try elementryOS . ive been using for a while and it is way better than ubuntu. nice lightweight OS and is really easy to use and has great system preformance. i think youll really enjoy this one

[vezzy]

Honestly, any distro will do, but I recommend staying away from Ubuntu, as the previous posters have said. The Unity UI is indeed horrible. I've started referring to Ubuntu as "Linux Vista".

You can pretty much adapt any distro into your own personal armory and life suite, but for beginners go for a Debian-based OS, like Linux Mint (basically Ubuntu minus most crap), or just straight Debian. Be sure to look into Fedora as well for another viable option. Red Hat's stuff is great.

Eventually you can start looking into building your own distro for your personal needs.

[Wolf]

Personal preference: I got puppy linux on a USB to build my own.

Or if you want documentation: http://lifehacker.com/5680453/build-a-killer-customized-arch-linux-installation-and-learn-all-about-linux-in-the-process

I would have enjoyed this a few years back...

[fluxdaemon]

I agree with everybody else, Ubuntu sucks. I've tried dozens of distros and I always find myself going back to Arch, Mint with Mate and Crunchbang. Each of them are good for something different.

I've learned the most from Arch, it's setup exactly like I want and is super fast.

Mint is a good kind of beginner distro and for a lot of people feels like Windows and is easy to setup

And I like Crunchbang because it's light and will run on my old Dell Latitude D410 It's also based off Debian now so it's super stable and has my favorite window mangager, Openbox. It's also really easy to setup

[an4rch1]

First time? Don't do Arch. Unless you are willing to spend more time reading and posting help threads all over the internet than actually doing anything productive on the computer.

Debian. Go Debian. Don't bother with Ubuntu. Especially not now that they've scrapped Gnome 2 and went to Unity. It's complete crap. It's practically worse than windows..

Ubuntu 12.04 -

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You - Well gee ubuntu is there anything I can do to fix or avoid that?
Ubuntu - NO!

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Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced an internal error.
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You - Fine fuck you Ubuntu!


Ubuntu -

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Unity has crashed.
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You - FUCKAHHAHAFHHAHAHFHFD AFDHAF FAGGOT BITCH UBUNTU!!!!

I've experience the same BS with the Ubuntu distro and worst of all, it doesn't like my cheap ass Compaq desktop from Walmart, plus Mandriva Linux totally screwed up   the video card because I messed with the hardware settings lol


I get some sort of "MP_BIOS IO not connected to ACIP" bug at start up but the new video card takes over which is why I can still use a monitor...

[lucid]

I agree with everybody else, Ubuntu sucks. I've tried dozens of distros and I always find myself going back to Arch, Mint with Mate and Crunchbang. Each of them are good for something different.

I've learned the most from Arch, it's setup exactly like I want and is super fast.

Mint is a good kind of beginner distro and for a lot of people feels like Windows and is easy to setup

And I like Crunchbang because it's light and will run on my old Dell Latitude D410 It's also based off Debian now so it's super stable and has my favorite window mangager, Openbox. It's also really easy to setup

Sometimes I try to experiment with new distros, but I just can't get away from Arch either. I'd say it's definitely the best.

[techb]

LFS teeheee.

[iTpHo3NiX]

You can visit this site and take the test http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
It gathers info from the answers you give and in the end it gives the user a list of distros.

Lol I did this and it gave me debian as #1 lol which I find funny because its my favorite nix distro for standard home use (also even as a server)


I'd suggest either debian/ubuntu/mandriva for you

[Snayler]

And I like Crunchbang because it's light and will run on my old Dell Latitude D410 It's also based off Debian now so it's super stable and has my favorite window mangager, Openbox. It's also really easy to setup

+1 for CrunchBang. It makes my acer travelmate 290 so fast and useful, it's unbelievable.
For servers I prefer Debian with just the base system (no graphical environment) and SSH.
Arch seems attractive, but I never took the time to explore it fully (I've only experimented with it on a virtual machine).

Lol I did this and it gave me debian as #1 lol which I find funny because its my favorite nix distro for standard home use (also even as a server)

Same as you, the test seems very precise. It showed me Mandriva as #2, but I've never tried it.