[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 14:53:55 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 14:35:29 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
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> 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.

Likely whatever you end up using will be fine.

I didn't mean to scare you off OpenSUSE.  My D experience has 
mostly been positive.  Just a small hiccup or two getting it set 
up (one of which was my fault), now it runs smoothly.