[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Chris]

On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 12:34:33 UTC, Dicebot 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.
>
> It is always a good idea to list specific requirements first :P 
> For example:
>
>  - how comfortable you are with console tinkering?

Is fine with me as long as it doesn't get too much.

>  - what is your preferred Deskop Environment / Windows Manager?

Most distros are flexible. Right now I'm testing Xfce.

>  - do you need most recent versions for some software?

Not necessarily. But it might be handy to have a good updating 
mechanism.

>  - is having good out of the box support for D important? ;)

Should be fine as I'm considering OpenSUSE, Mint or (maybe) 
Fedora. There are easy installers for all of them and dub works 
on all of them, I suppose.

>
> etc.