I tried also Mandriva and Mint - they are cool! Mandriva is KDE, Redhat based linux while Mint is Ubuntu with many added plugins for usability.
What's the best Linux? It completely depends sa purpose mo. For daily use without worrying many configurations or compilations - making it work out of the box, Mandriva and Mint are perfect for this category. Of course Ubuntu (the mother of Mint) and Fedora older and bigger brother of Mandriva are just perfect here in this category too. Sabayon and PCLinuxOS are also very nice distro with many eye candies especially Sabayon. PCLinuxOS on the other hand is one of the easiest distro I ever tried - it just all works and I even forgot tweaking and configuring it. Highly recommended distro.
If you like to learn Linux while having more flexibility and options - then try Gentoo, the BSDs (FreeBSD, PCBSD, DesktopBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD), Arch, Slackware, Debian, Redhat, and lately I found OpenSuse a good platform to learn as well.
Mostly, I learned Linux once I used it in our company as production or test server. I already used Slackware, Redhat and CentOS (free Redhat based distro), Debian, Ubuntu Server and lately OpenSUSE - all as a server (just terminal based, no GUI) and they are all served my purposed and kinda unique depending to what service I want to use.
My personal favorite so far is Ubuntu as my desktop and even as server as Debian is one of my favorite old distro and Ubuntu is based in Debian. I also used Redhat Enterprise or CentOS if required by some of my production application. OpenSUSE is also promising and used in one of my experiment in our company - it works perfectly and lots of potential in my other incoming projects.
Others like Fedora, PCLinux, Sabayon, Mint and Mandriva are really cool - it just I don't need most of the eye candies and other extra packages - I always go back to Ubuntu as my desktop even I like those distro.
Arch, Gentoo, and the BSDs are too much for me to handle as a Desktop and a home computer - I want my house PC works out of the box with less hassle in maintaining it.
Deuts, keep on trying as many as you can in either your spare old PC or using Virtual Machines and check which one you'll like most and will fit in your requirements.
Please share also here what you discover and learned.
Linux and my life :)
I tried also Mandriva and Mint - they are cool! Mandriva is KDE, Redhat based linux while Mint is Ubuntu with many added plugins for usability.
What's the best Linux? It completely depends sa purpose mo. For daily use without worrying many configurations or compilations - making it work out of the box, Mandriva and Mint are perfect for this category. Of course Ubuntu (the mother of Mint) and Fedora older and bigger brother of Mandriva are just perfect here in this category too. Sabayon and PCLinuxOS are also very nice distro with many eye candies especially Sabayon. PCLinuxOS on the other hand is one of the easiest distro I ever tried - it just all works and I even forgot tweaking and configuring it. Highly recommended distro.
If you like to learn Linux while having more flexibility and options - then try Gentoo, the BSDs (FreeBSD, PCBSD, DesktopBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD), Arch, Slackware, Debian, Redhat, and lately I found OpenSuse a good platform to learn as well.
Mostly, I learned Linux once I used it in our company as production or test server. I already used Slackware, Redhat and CentOS (free Redhat based distro), Debian, Ubuntu Server and lately OpenSUSE - all as a server (just terminal based, no GUI) and they are all served my purposed and kinda unique depending to what service I want to use.
My personal favorite so far is Ubuntu as my desktop and even as server as Debian is one of my favorite old distro and Ubuntu is based in Debian. I also used Redhat Enterprise or CentOS if required by some of my production application. OpenSUSE is also promising and used in one of my experiment in our company - it works perfectly and lots of potential in my other incoming projects.
Others like Fedora, PCLinux, Sabayon, Mint and Mandriva are really cool - it just I don't need most of the eye candies and other extra packages - I always go back to Ubuntu as my desktop even I like those distro.
Arch, Gentoo, and the BSDs are too much for me to handle as a Desktop and a home computer - I want my house PC works out of the box with less hassle in maintaining it.
Deuts, keep on trying as many as you can in either your spare old PC or using Virtual Machines and check which one you'll like most and will fit in your requirements.
Please share also here what you discover and learned.
Thanks.