On Thursday 04 January 2007 19:58, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
I've run RedHat (from 2.1 - FC4), Mandrake/Mandriva from fairly early on, and I've recently tried Gentoo and Kubuntu, and for a desktop I'd pick Mandriva every time. It's been what I've used since I switched to a Linux desktop about four years ago, with a brief excursion into SuSE. (That's another RPM/SysV/RedHat based system, but I don't recommend it for non-commercial users.)
I have to recommend Gentoo for anyone who doesn't mind learning internal workings. Binary OS have too many problems with application availability, and while Gentoo adds some new scary issues (such as forseeing what programs you want to install a few hours in advance), it's at least a step in the right direction.