[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Chris]

On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 14:35:29 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 12:47:15 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> - what is your preferred Deskop Environment / Windows Manager?
>>
>> Most distros are flexible. Right now I'm testing Xfce.
>
> Theoretically - yes. In practice packaging quality differs 
> depending on how much attention specific DE/WM gets from that 
> distro maintainers. For example, you are unlikely to reliably 
> use Unity anywhere but on Ubuntu and Gnome 3 fans are pretty 
> much limited to Fedora and Arch. For more simplistic 
> environments it is not that much of a concern, at least Xfce 
> should be rock solid anywhere.
>
> I am (unsurprisingly) using Arch but can easily imagine 
> perfectly legitimate reasons to not do so :P

I've had a look at Arch. While it seems to be a nice and (c)lean 
distro, it is a bit of a pain in the neck to install / set up. 
Also I don't know, if it will be easy to get the hardware support 
I need. I don't want to spend ages configuring it and tinkering 
with drivers etc. I prefer UI installers and out-of-the box 
support (and if the latter is not possible, at least an 
"easy-to-get-the-drivers-later-system"). The laziest option would 
be Mint, but Mint is basically Ubuntu (if it's not LMDE). If 
OpenSUSE causes problems with D (as pointed out above), I'm not 
sure, if it's a good idea to use it, especially now that I use 
dub. Little annoyances can sometimes become big annoyances, if 
they occur at a critical moment.

Maybe I'll give Fedora (+ Xfce) a shot.