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c1utch:
So, i've aquired another 160gb HDD and thought I'd try linux again

I'm leeching Mandrake 10.1 right now, but i may go with 3 partitions of:
Fedora 3
Suse 9.2
and the Mandrake

just to see which I prefer, however, has anyone here had any experience, or reccomend anything to use or not to use?

thanks

torg:
at my company we always had problems with mandrake distributions. they just seem to do something wrong. you loose your settings, or cant compile anything because the enviroment variables magically vanished and so on...
at home i 've been using suse (currently 9.1) since version 6.2. never had any serious problems with it. especially installation always was pretty smooth. additionally you get rpms of nearly all software you might want to install. and if not, compiling usually is no problem, as suse sticks to the posix recommendations concerning directory structure relatively strictly.
i can't comment on fedora, though...

so my choice would be suse ;)

Jenno:
IMHO Mandrake trys too hard to appeal to the lowest common denominator. eg. the "omg!! teh windows is the same thing as my computer" crowd.

I'd recommend Ubuntu, or if you're a little more curious/adventurous try Gentoo or Slackware.

I personally dual boot Win XP/Ubuntu on my desktop (XP for games.... ubuntu for everything else) and run slackware on my server.

EDIT:  Also, I hear good things about Suse, but I've never tried it.

painQuin:
mandrake also appeals to the lazy bum who still wants his computer to be able to do useful things, like run without crashing (a complex task for windows, it seems)

the installer is usually smooth, and if you know what you're doing it's pretty easy to leave out the stuff that's in for transition folk

I personally have never had any real trouble with it, and I am indeed a lazy bum

lb969:
I'll stick to Debian thanks....

Much nicer than the others... has an apt-get that automatically installs apps for you.

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