Poll: The Great OcUK Distro/Derivative Poll VI

Take your pick:

  • Arch Linux

    Votes: 69 13.3%
  • BSD Derivative (FreeBSD, PC-BSD etc.)

    Votes: 11 2.1%
  • CentOS

    Votes: 40 7.7%
  • Crunchbang

    Votes: 17 3.3%
  • Debian

    Votes: 59 11.4%
  • Fedora

    Votes: 45 8.7%
  • Gentoo

    Votes: 20 3.9%
  • Mandriva

    Votes: 5 1.0%
  • MEPIS

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • Mint

    Votes: 107 20.7%
  • OpenSUSE

    Votes: 24 4.6%
  • PCLinuxOS

    Votes: 3 0.6%
  • Puppy

    Votes: 12 2.3%
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

    Votes: 15 2.9%
  • Sabayon

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Slackware

    Votes: 9 1.7%
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise (Server or Desktop)

    Votes: 3 0.6%
  • OpenSolaris

    Votes: 5 1.0%
  • Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, NBR)

    Votes: 243 46.9%
  • Other

    Votes: 20 3.9%

  • Total voters
    518
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I use gentoo, arch and slack at home then goto work and use debian and ubuntu, prefer gentoo and arch most though :p

Oh and can we have a wm poll too, pretty please with a penguin on top :D
 
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Gentoo here, because of the wonderful package manager Portage and I kept breaking my system on other DIY distributions. All in all it took me about 20 hours to install though and two more weeks to finish configuring the WM and kernel.
 
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Archlinux here :D

works fine, wiki is brilliant, updates without problems, rolling release so no upgrade disks

I've tried lots of distro's but Arch is my favourite

Gentoo = takes forever to compile evrything, often breaks on updates
Ubuntu = works ok, default install seems slow and bloated (pretty good if u want linux to be like windows)
 
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Voted Gentoo, I did install Fedora for a few hours which was great because everything just seemed to work but then I missed the ease of portage and the fun (and sometimes frustration!! :p) of messing with configuration files :)
 

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I was ubuntu, but I m looking to switch as its too much of a mess around, just to connect to the internet, I know my wireless belkin isnt the most linux freindly but the older version managed to use it...

anyone got any ideas?
I want to use linux for productivity tasks mostly like CAD, graphics design. maybe a bit of programming :D
 
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