Have you used any Unix OS?

[joeychua]

1. What is the best distro you have used?
2. What is the worst distro you have used?
3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
5. Do you use your distro for everyday use? Why?

 

[JKnife]

1) Fedora 10 (preview build, released in 6 days)
2) FreeBSD/Ubuntu
3) OpenBSD
4) Fedora
5) either Debian or Fedora (debian is for my home pc which doubles as a file server for backups and fedora is what i use on my laptop when i don't eed windows for school)

 

[nterror]

1. What is the best distro you have used?
Fedora (v10 out November 25 BTW)
2. What is the worst distro you have used?
Can't say.
3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
Can't say.
4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
Fedora and OpenSUSE. Ubuntu simplifies things, might be helpful to long time Windows users. However, it is said Mint is Ubuntu done right.
5. Do you use your distro for everyday use? Why?
Yes. Hated Windows, won't go near a Mac, what else is there? Also, Linux is for power users, I'm more productive now. I can do everything in Linux except play a couple games, so I have a Vista partition with a dual boot setup.

Also, you can check www.linux.com for reviews, and www.distrowatch.com for upcoming distributions and updates.

 

[compwhizii]

1. What is the best distro you have used?
2. What is the worst distro you have used?
3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
5. Do you use your distro for everyday use? Why?

1. I liked ubuntu
2. Hmmm, dunno
3. Gentoo
4. Mac OS X (Yes, mac is built off unix)
5. Nope. Sticking with windows for now.

 

[bludra84]

1. What is the best distro you have used?
Archlinux
2. What is the worst distro you have used?
None. Maybe RedHat back in its pre-fedora days...
3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
Linux from Scratch
4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
Probably Ubuntu, but the new Fedora looks nice.
5. Do you use your distro for everyday use? Why?
Yes I do use linux for everyday use. Mainly because I love the unix based environment and all the free and legal software. I find it fun.

 

[Smith6612]

1. What is the best distro you have used?

Fedora Core 10

2. What is the worst distro you have used?
Don't know

3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
Don't know

4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
Fedora/Ubuntu

5. Do you use your distro for everyday use? Why?

Not really. I use the distro to power a PC acting as a network router and server.

 

[dlane99]

1. What is the best distro you have used?
2. What is the worst distro you have used?
3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
5. Do you use your distro for everyday use? Why?

1. Ubuntu
2. I havent used that many but I couldnt get kUbuntu to install once so I'll say that one.
3. No idea, but anything that dosen't use a GUI
4. Ubuntu
5. I don't, I would like to tho, but i struggle to do anything complex on it tbh.

 

[mac173]

1. What is the best distro you have used?
Ubuntu, but plan to look at Fedora after reading this thread
2. What is the worst distro you have used?
SUSE (about 8 years ago) Documentation was an unreadable translation from German.
3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
Original Red Hat without a UI
4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
Ubuntu, hands down
5. Do you use your distro for everyday use?
Not at the moment.
Why?
I play games that will not run on Linux on my PC, but I am considering dumping Vista for Ubuntu on my laptop.:biggrin:

Vista suxors!

 

[IonCannon218]

1. What is the best distro you have used?
Ubuntu
2. What is the worst distro you have used?
Puppy
3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
I'm not sure
4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
Ubuntu
5. Do you use your distro for everyday use? Why?
Yeah mostly but I use xp for gaming.

 

[axesdenyd]

1. What is the best distro you have used?
FreeBSD

2. What is the worst distro you have used?
Slackware

3. What is the most challenging distro to learn?
After you learn one Unix/Linux system, the rest are easy

4. What is the most user friendly distro you have used?
XanderOS or Ubuntu (Choose your flavor)

5. Do you use your distro for everyday use? Why?
Yes, they're on my primary desktop, and servers.

The biggest question that you need to answer for yourself, is how much are you going to be working from a command-line environment, and how much of a GUI do you need in a unix/linux environment.

The more GDE and GUI elements that you install, the more power and drive space your distro is going to command of you. And, just as important is WHAT graphical desktop environment you choose. Gnome, KDE, or a Piece Meal desktop. Personally, I use XFCE4, and it's pretty inclusive, but does take a command-line knowledge of your system, which some people aren't/can't invest the time for.