What's the better linux distro?

[jacbu]

I recently experimented with installing linux on my pc and I really love it. Actually I'm liking it better than my MACbook Pro & Windows XP desktop. I'm actually starting to do more and more stuff on my linux machine than my Mac & windows OS computer. Totally unexpected for me really. (but off course I still use Mac at work because that's what the boss wants)
I don't know if it's true or not but I feel more secure browsing the internet with the linux machine.
Having said all that, I'm debating between installing PClinuxOS2007 or Sabayon for my main desktop computer. Ubuntu is out - for some reason my video card goes crazy with it (Radeon9800)
I actually already started with installing PCLOS & it works great but does not support my 64bit processor. I played with the 64 bit Sabayon live CD and it also works great but my TV tuner doesn't want to start.
WHaaaaa! Sabayon? PCLOS? which one? HELP me choose!

BTW the linux 3D Beryl - Compiz desktop insterface thing is awesome! I really like it better than the new vista & leopard. It's CRAZY that it's FREE!
Blender 3d modeler, Gimp photo editing, Xara vector drawing is so good - I wonder how this is affecting those companies who charge thousands of dollars for programs that do the same thing ^u^

[hopper]

hmm best linux distro i suppose would be the one that suits your needs
i personally would go with fedora
it may not be the 'easiest' out there or the most 'powerfull'
it probably isnt even the 'best'
but its not that hard to use
its decently flexible esepecailly the more recent ones
and its easy to install
suse isnt that bad either, nore is debian but espeically with debian the installers arent as easy

[sathyabhat]

It's alll subjective really - what's best for on person maynot be the best for the other. I prefer openSUSE. It's worked GREAT for me for quite some time now!

[jacbu]

I actually tried fedora & suse before but I was finding it hard to make everything work (specially my TV card). Yeah I can't seem to learn all this manual command prompt typing anymore. SUDO this SUDO that...I get blehhh. Weird, when not long ago (90's) I was so used to typing away commands in DOS & autocad. All this nice GUI things have spoiled me.

Main purpose of this desktop is to be a media center & work secondary. From all the distros I've tried my hardware only seems to play with PCLOS - everything works after installation(and on live disk). I just wished it supported 64bit processors. I don't care anymore, just as long I can watch my TV while I eat breakfast.
I guess that's it then, PCLOS with KDE is the ONE for me :D
So long 64bit Sabayon you where good (but a bit bloated with none sense software for me) maybe I'll check you out when I get new hardware. Maybe then you'll work the TV.
Now if I can only make the digital coax out for sound work. Every distro I played with can't seem to make it work (doesn't even show controls for it
I can always just plug in to the amp analog but boooo to that.

[denaon]

I used to have Elive in my HD.... it worked perfectly fine for me...
http://www.elivecd.org/

As I'm kind of a newbie with Linux the only thing I can say for sure it's that it wasn't complicated at all to install and it recognised every hardware I have ;)

[jacbu]

Looks like I can't make this media-center-&-work desktop pure linux. From time to time I need to create flash animation & I couldn't find any program that does that in linux. Well... actually there are tiny programs out there that does basic animation but they are so far from cs flash functionality.
I have to make this thing dual boot with windows then.

BTW ELIVE looks interesting but TV functionality is not automatic.

[hopper]

tv card eh? i STILL havnt gotten my tv card to work properly.. it works but well.. i cant record with sound hehe.. but someday, anyways.. good luck at finding what works and dont give up and all that

[jacbu]

Yeah...all because of my TV Card (ASUS TV Fm). Yikes that reminds me, I haven't tried the record functionality.
Just for fun I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 64bit hopefully this new version would work better than v.7.
But really I'm already sold out to PCLOS (for now - well because of my current hardware)
Edit:
I just tried the latest Ubuntu 8.04 desktop 64bit. My TV card didn't work :dunno: oh well....

[allinone]

because i have always been struggling with harddisk space so i will opt for these.
1.DSL
2.Puppy linux
3.geexbox(media center only)

[tangbaba]

I've got to say that I love Ubuntu. For the poster who had problems with his TV card- there may be a work-around for it if you're into tinkering. Just post on the Ubuntu forums- the community is very supportive and has helped me with any hardware problems that I have ran across (like when I installed Xubuntu onto an ancient laptop of mine).
Plus- Ubuntu is one of the most popular distributions out there. Remember that hacking contest to see which system would fall first to hacking attempts (about a month or so ago)- the distribution that they used for the Linux box was Ubuntu