It also depends what are trying to do. Like everyone says it is something to play around with but not get into the nidy-gridy of things I suggest something from the Ubuntu or maybe CentOS familes. You want to learn more about how to build up a Linux box, you're looking for Gentoo, Arch, or LFS. Another important question is what type of device are you looking to play with? If it's a Pi then you can look at Rasberry or something similar. There are a dozen of distros out there for desktop and servers. So create a list of things you are looking for that will be of great help to narrow down what your looking for. Or you can just go to ditrowatch and play enny-minny-moo :D On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On Oct 10, 2016 10:02 AM, "mike enriquez" wrote: >> >>> I have experience with Red Hat and Ubuntu and I am looking for >>> another Distro to load on an other computer. Any of you have a >>> recommendation for a Distro that you like? >>> >> On 2016-10-10 09:08, Kevin Fries wrote: > >> I use Arch pretty much any time I have the option of distros. [...] >> Not an easy distribution to install. But once running, you won't >> find another one that is more stable. >> > > I guess the other question is, "What do you want to accomplish with this > new distro?" If it's just to play around with something new, almost > anything will work. If you want to learn how things interact at a lower > level than usual, LFS or Arch or Gentoo will give you that. If you want to > have a pretty good desktop with lots of stuff supported out of the box, > Mint has gotten a lot of good press. > > The "How to install Gentoo" documentation is long, but don't let that put > you off. It's mostly "Boot from CD or USB key. Run command 1. Run > command 2. .... Run command 255. You're done!" all spelled out > explicitly. Waiting for KDE or GNOME to finish compiling is the only > difficult part :-) > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Stephen Melheim 602-400-7707 SMelheim85@gmail.com