Been a year since I installed Arch. Earlier I used to dual boot XP and one linux distro (which used to keep changing). I now triple boot. XP, Arch and the latest experiment. Haven’t found anything that beats Arch so far.

Tyler B :

TheMalteseJoseph :
I have used Mandriva 2008.1 from the time it came out. I tried Mandriva 2009 but had some problems playing Warcraft III so I went back to 2008.1. It’s very stable, very easy for common user and it was my choice after a numerous livecds I downloaded during my migration from windows. I tried Mepis , Nexenta, Ubuntu, Backtrack, Kubuntu, Knoppix, Slitaz, Puppy, Centos, OpenSUSE, Linux Mint and probably more minor ones. These I tried on livecds like 3 years ago so this may be pointless. Every now and then I download Ubuntu and try it out. I tried so much distros because I had problems with performing shutdown and with hanging after a while using. Mandriva 2008.0 was the only one that performed shutdown completely and did not freeze after 15mins . Each time Ubuntu releases a new distro I try it and they always either freeze or do not shutdown properly. Apparently my ASRock motherboard uses a VIA chipset not supported by linux. I however used a boot command to disable power managing features on all distros and again only Mandriva was succesful.
I now need a new installation because I am fed up of downloading every update manually since support on 2008.1 has ended. I am worried that 2010.2 which looks fantastic on livecd might slow me down a bit because of KDE 4.x . Therefore I now want to play my x64 card. I have migrated to linux because windows is too capitalist and limited and because it’s support for x64 bit sucked. I however did not know that my Mandriva was not running x64 until i started downloading rpms when support ended. This surprised me because it still looked much faster than win-those eggs-pee.
I am now trying kubuntu 10.4 and linuxMint Julia livecds. I am discarding LinuxMint because they don’t use multiple desktops.
Finally someone please point me to an x64 KDE4.x stable distro preferably usind rpms because i am used to them now. Pardus looks great but the fact that i have to download both livecd and installation is keeping me back.
Great blog or forum (don’t know the difference).
keep it up.

I heard OpenSUSE just came out with a brand new release that is stable, offers 64 bit and uses RPMs. Maybe try that?

I forgot to point out i have only 1Gb RAM but thanks.

TheMalteseJoseph :

I have used Mandriva 2008.1 from the time it came out. I tried Mandriva 2009 but had some problems playing Warcraft III so I went back to 2008.1. It’s very stable, very easy for common user and it was my choice after a numerous livecds I downloaded during my migration from windows. I tried Mepis , Nexenta, Ubuntu, Backtrack, Kubuntu, Knoppix, Slitaz, Puppy, Centos, OpenSUSE, Linux Mint and probably more minor ones. These I tried on livecds like 3 years ago so this may be pointless. Every now and then I download Ubuntu and try it out. I tried so much distros because I had problems with performing shutdown and with hanging after a while using. Mandriva 2008.0 was the only one that performed shutdown completely and did not freeze after 15mins . Each time Ubuntu releases a new distro I try it and they always either freeze or do not shutdown properly. Apparently my ASRock motherboard uses a VIA chipset not supported by linux. I however used a boot command to disable power managing features on all distros and again only Mandriva was succesful.
I now need a new installation because I am fed up of downloading every update manually since support on 2008.1 has ended. I am worried that 2010.2 which looks fantastic on livecd might slow me down a bit because of KDE 4.x . Therefore I now want to play my x64 card. I have migrated to linux because windows is too capitalist and limited and because it’s support for x64 bit sucked. I however did not know that my Mandriva was not running x64 until i started downloading rpms when support ended. This surprised me because it still looked much faster than win-those eggs-pee.
I am now trying kubuntu 10.4 and linuxMint Julia livecds. I am discarding LinuxMint because they don’t use multiple desktops.
Finally someone please point me to an x64 KDE4.x stable distro preferably usind rpms because i am used to them now. Pardus looks great but the fact that i have to download both livecd and installation is keeping me back.
Great blog or forum (don’t know the difference).
keep it up.

I heard OpenSUSE just came out with a brand new release that is stable, offers 64 bit and uses RPMs. Maybe try that?

since KDE4 is all around now, I am using Gnome – KDE4 is buggy,looks ugly,eats ressources, introduces nonsense features and is at the best wishful thinking not useable .A tragedy they have trashed all at once what KDE3.5.x had to offer. It was so good. Now 4.0 is simply : crap. Luckily ubuntu is among the first 2 distros that newbies will get to know, therfore becoming used to Gnome. Imagine they get to know KDE4 as first impression..

At best this is an incomplete set of opinions about a small set of not very popular distros.