Which installable Other Distros have you tried and liked?

[pane-free]

Having used antiX, peppermint, salix, CrunchBang, PCLOS, element (defunct), SolusOS, absolute and Xange, I liked them enough to keep, and learned them. Contrarily, I tried Sabayon Gaming, KahelOS, ArchBang, Fedora LXDE spin, Vector SOHO and others, didn't them much at all and got rid of them quickly.

The latest Linux distro I'm enamoured with is siduction 12.1 -- http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07252

Which have you tried and liked enough to learn a little about?

[warrenc]

I like PCLOS because it's simple and I am far from a geek. I love the Synaptic Package Manager so I can actually get things up and running without ever seeing the dreaded terminal.

[Victor Leigh]

I started with Ubuntu. In fact, at that time, I thought that Linux was Ubuntu and Ubuntu was Linux. When my cdrom drive died and my hard drive failed, I had to find something that would run from a pendrive. After a lot of trial and error, I found Puppy Linux. I am still using Puppy Linux right now as I type this. This distro is Slacko Puppy 5.3.3 derived from Slackware.

A few days back, I messed up my server when I made an upgrade. At that time I was using Centos. Then I did some research on the matter and decided to change to Debian. The main reason being that I am already familiar with Debian in the form of Ubuntu. So now I have Debian 6 32-bit running on my server. With Webmin, Virtualmin and Usermin. I will go for nginx once I have figured out whether it's really better than the Apache which I am using now.

[icebirdro]

I only used ubuntu and Mint, haven't tried any other distro but I'll have a lot of free time this summer and I'll test a lot of distros to see which one suits my needs xD

[Victor Leigh]

I only used ubuntu and Mint, haven't tried any other distro but I'll have a lot of free time this summer and I'll test a lot of distros to see which one suits my needs xD

Very often the difference between the distros is just the desktop environment. Basically, there are only a few desktop environments in popular use.

The default usually is Gnome. Then there's KDE, which is a very detailed and heavy-weight desktop environment. On the lighter side, there is LXDE and XFCE. Of the two, I have a preference for XFCE but there are a couple of things in LXDE which I like to use.

So if you want to try them out, what you can do is install Debian. Then install all the desktop environments I mentioned. After that log out and log in to change the desktop environment.

If you want to try out Linux packages, install Ubuntu instead of Debian because Ubuntu has a more updated database of packages. Please note that although Ubuntu is derived from Debian, Ubuntu and Debian are not the same thing.

[lucasbytegenius]

Distros I've liked include Ubuntu, which I use as my primary distro, OpenSUSE, which I used to use as my primary, Mint, which is pretty darn awesome but I prefer Ubuntu, PepperMint, CrunchBang, Adonis Linux, and most recently Fedora.

[pane-free]

. . . I prefer Ubuntu, PepperMint, CrunchBang, Adonis Linux . . .

I hadn't heard of Adonis Linux. Thank you for the reference, lucasbytegenius!

[flotwig]

I've used Ubuntu, Kubuntu, SuSE, Debian and Fedora. Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora were my favorites out of those, and currently I use Debian and Fedora because of the bloat in Ubuntu.

[lucasbytegenius]

I hadn't heard of Adonis Linux. Thank you for the reference, lucasbytegenius!

You're welcome, nyxcharon on Computer Forum is the guy behind it, and I've been following development for the past few weeks

[Victor Leigh]

Distros I've liked include Ubuntu, which I use as my primary distro, OpenSUSE, which I used to use as my primary, Mint, which is pretty darn awesome but I prefer Ubuntu, PepperMint, CrunchBang, Adonis Linux, and most recently Fedora.

Just had a quick look at Adonis. It claims to be lightweight but the iso file is 1.2Gb. That's big. Anyway I am downloading it now to find out more. In the meantime, how about telling us which features of Adonis you like best?