Recommend me a Linux Distro.

Ash-Lee · 20 May 2010 at 08:12

I'm after a nice distro to use.

Ubuntu is out of the question, since v8.04 there is a problem with PAM and my machine, i can't figure it out and i'm getting nowhere on the Ubuntu forums.

So i'm looking for something

1. As easy as Ubuntu to install/use.
2. Preferbally with less pre-installed stuff, i like to choose what i want on my system.

I've used Arch Linux before, i *might* have another bash at it tonight, the only off putting thing is the amount of 'tinkering' i've done it once before i'm not 100% sure i want to go through it all again.

Ash-Lee · 20 May 2010 at 19:29

I'm going to give Fedora 12 a try out.

Ash-Lee · 21 May 2010 at 00:09

PhilGQ said:
wait 5 days and get Fedora 13

Is there not an option to upgrade?

Ash-Lee · 21 May 2010 at 18:29

I'm getting on ok with Fedora so far. There is no nonsense with passwords and PAM that i had with Ubuntu.

I was a bit disheartened when the update manager wouldn't work, but this was a known issue and a quick 'yam update' in the terminal has ironed out that problem.

I'm going to stick with it for a few months and then i'll have a look into 13.

Thankyou for the suggestions everyone.

Ash-Lee · 25 May 2010 at 19:23

Been a few days at least now.

Fedora seems to work for me, i see version 13 is out now but i might wait a while for that. I have lost the bootup splash screen since installing the nvidia drivers but i'm sure theres a workaround for that somewhere.

Ash-Lee · 28 Jun 2010 at 23:33

Rainmaker said:
I'm glad Fedora is working out for you OP. I loaded F13 into VirtualBox t'other day and I was very impressed. I loved F8 and F10 but moved onto pastures new after that (Mint, mostly). I'm loving Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13 though. Change, change, change. Don't you just love software freedom?

Still using it, does everything i need it to do, even more so now i have found and added the RPM Fusion repos.

Even playing games on here now, Nexuiz is quite decent. I usually play BF2 and CoD so it makes a refreshing change to just run around shooting everything that moves.