What is your favorite brand of linux?

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For all you linux ponies out there (I'm using Windows, see blog), what is your favorite brand of linux? There is a ****load of them to pick from so what makes you pick the one you are using?

[WingedPanther]

Ubuntu and Mint are on my radar for my next install, though I've had good experiences with RedHat/Fedora.

[Jordan]

Ubuntu works well as a desktop OS and a server. I've also used and like OpenSuse, Sabayon, CentOS and Redhat/Fedora.

[marwex89]

I like Gentoo for the same reasons I like semi-low level programming. I have Arch on one of my USB sticks (see my LiveUSB tutorial). I never really got comfortable with Ubuntu for some reason..

[ZekeDragon]

Ubuntu is okay... but not my favorite. I think I preferred Mandriva way more. Also Linux Mint, Sabayon, and Puppy Linux. ^_^

[marwex89]

I don't like puppy.. It's easy to use, but I never really liked it. Don't they have Cat-Linux?

[Shaddix]

Mint7 is excellent!
it's Ubuntu 9 + a lot of work of the Mint people

so it has the benefits of Ubuntu 9 + the benefits added by the Mint community
for example everything work out of the box, it has a lot of drivers, flash, video codecs, vlc, ... installed

also it has the best Gnome Look I ever saw, if you want to try Linux, there is only 1 way to go, Mint

[BlaineSch]

I actually have Mint on my cell! I like Mandrivia though, it is really one of 3 I have really tried though so I am not giving it a fair chance.

[amrosama]

mint looks nice, im gonna try it on the next linux installation

[debtboy]

Tried quite a few, but recently installed Gentoo.
It was a PITA to install and configure but for
some unknown reason, I enjoyed every minute of it,
over 3,000 minutes to be more precise.
compiling... compiling... and more compiling...
(must be a personality defect)