-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have used many distros over the years. To be honest, most are pretty good. The first distro that clicked with me was Debian, and my favorite ~ Desktop Environment is KDE, so it is not surprising that KUbuntu is my personal choice.
Having said that, I would choose a distro that has a lot of local users, since this list is likely going to be your second stop for help and support (google should become your first :) ~From what I can see, the Debian and Ubuntu distros have a lot of local users and should be "safe" choices. Also, I know a number of Fedora users so that is not bad choice either. There are also a few Gentoo people so that should also be a viable alternative alongside Mandriva. By comparison there are only two of us who have significant Slackware experience, and only one of the two is still a passionate user. This is not to say that it is not a fine distro, but when you run into problems (you will regardless of the distro you choose), it could be a more difficult to get help. Given that you already have some experience with Debian, I would either stay with Debian or try one of the Ubuntu variants. In a perfect world you would have the time to try as many distros as you can, and then choose the one that you "clicked" with. Richard Carter wrote: | Hi Folks. | | I think I've broke debian! My mouse is dead and apt-get and aptitude | don't seem to work. Rather than bore you with the gory details, I | think I'll reinstall. So now the question is what distro do people in | CLUG favour? I like debian but ubuntu and kubuntu seem popular. What | do you like? | | Thanks for any advice. | | Robin | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | _______________________________________________ | clug-talk mailing list | [email protected] | http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca | Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) | **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgzYVwRXgH3rKGfMRAvi7AJ9XWJ0F52r3SnzNBT2LHBJd5JO87QCeO830 ZR1xfconlISv6vxT8pVveN4= =DCkk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
