[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Moritz Maxeiner]

On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 12:30:27 UTC, Chris wrote:
> At work we use Ubuntu, however, I'm not at all happy with it 
> and don't want to use it on my private computer. Which is the 
> best alternative (I've been looking at OpenSUSE; Mint is based 
> on Ubuntu/Debian but only shares the repository with Ubuntu 
> (right?); Fedora has bad reviews at the moment and might be a 
> pain to set up (drivers etc.)). I'm also considering FreeBSD, a 
> completely different beast.

As Dicebot said already, it depends heavily on your requirements.

For me, the most important property of any operating system (and 
by extension Linux distribution) is, that it doesn't hinder me in 
what I want to do (or better: That is does so as little as 
possible).

I'm not going to poke the Linux vs. BSD monster with a stick, but 
personally, I'm using Linux. On the topic of which distribution, 
I like the amount of freedom Gentoo and Arch give you. Arch does 
so somewhat less than Gentoo, but I find the amount of time 
required to compile everything (including the kernel, binutils, 
etc.), as is done in Gentoo, a lot more of a hindrance than the 
restrictions Arch has that Gentoo doesn't.

So for the time being I'm using Archlinux+i3, which is a setup I 
can definitely recommend.