[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Iain Buclaw]

On 21 January 2014 11:42, Chris <wendlec at tcd.ie> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 11:18:05 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> FreeBSD with E17 is the best desktop I've ever used, very fast and
>> responsive.  You can quickly run or install PC-BSD to see if it will go well
>> with your hardware, then reinstall to FreeBSD if you like it but don't want
>> or need all the PC-BSD extras.  The FreeBSD packaging system works very
>> well.
>>
>> Arch is the one linux distro that reminds me of FreeBSD, particularly
>> pacman and the AUR, which is why it is the only one I install these days.
>
>
> How's the FreeBSD documentation / community? Is it easy to find solutions?
> ArchLinux is really good (from the little I've seen so far) and not as
> chaotic as "askubuntu".

Being a ubuntuforum guy (and a previous member of staff there) - I've
never liked askubuntu either.