Redhat,GNU, or Mint. What is your Linux preference?

[john70t]

Microsoft was actually on the verge of becoming the good guy finally.
I actually LOVE the simplicity of XP, 7 is manageable, 8.0 seemed like bizarre twist, but this GWX is too much.
I was hoping in a small way it was only a phase, because MS was the last of the mfr's to go big brother data on its customers, but now the cat's out of the bag and there ain't no going back.

[stomachmonkey]

Depends on what you want it for.

If you are looking for a desktop then Mint.

Redhat is Enterprise, it's gonna cost you $'s, the community edition of Redhat is CentOS.

I run Cent a lot for servers although it also makes for a nice desktop, lags a bit behind on versions of some stuff, PHP is not current but it's stable and has great support.

Personally not a fan of Ubuntu's Unity desktop.

Grab and burn Live CD's of the distro that interests you. You can try them out from disc first then install.

That or grab Virtual Box from Oracle and the corresponding distro VM's and give them a whirl.

[HardDrive]

Probably not relevant to your needs, but I'm using Amazons flavor o'linux for my webservers. Its their own bake of CentOS.

[hardflex]

Running Linux Mint 17.2 on an older laptop and older desktop both. For my purposes they're working fine, a few quirks here and there. Set it up on a dual boot system and try it out.

[cstreit]

I use CentOS for individual or VPServers... Red hat for large scale applications. Don't run Linux on the desktop.....

[k9handler]

CentOS here as well, Red hat on the big stuff....repeat info I know.

[fanaudical]

I have Mint on the wife's home computer. She hasn't been able to screw it up yet and it's very solid. Previously she was running Windows 7 and managed to need an OS reload every few weeks...

[Aragorn]

I have played around with a few different flavors of Linux and found Mint to be the easiest to install and use. Tried the latest version of Ubuntu and it didn't recognize some of my hardware. Downloaded Ubuntu Studio and it made my system slow to a crawl. Most of that was probably problems with my system configuration but Ubuntu didn't work well with what I have.

Mint looks and acts a lot like the best of windows 7 and XP. It has a wealth of repositories for software. Have run it on older "turn of the century" era single core systems and it runs fine as long as you have around 1gb of memory.

[scottmandue]

I have an old computer that was creepy crawly on "Vista".
It ran so slow it was dead to me so on recommendation of some of the guys here I installed Mint.
As said looks and feels very much like windows but ten times faster.
And it is free.