Which Distro?

[Dazed_75]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe <mbushroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am once again having trouble with my SuSe 11 system not booting. It
> seemed to occur after I loaded the drivers in Windoze for a
> video-to-USB converter. I tried downloading the latest SUSE 11.1 ISO
> and do an update, but it still seems to get of the way through boot,
> then die about the time it should be starting the Xwindow system.
>
>  Looking other posts on this forum, I see few others mention SuSe as
> there distro, and many talk about switching from one to another. How
> do you decide when it is time to switch distros, and more importantly,
> how do you decide which distro to switch to?
>
>  I have been stuck running my Windoze partition on my main computer,
> and my new (used) laptop running Windoze for some time now. Even with
> Knoppix I can not get my Open Office files to work, so I would like to
> find some way to get back in the running.. I have looked through the
> latest boot log, and it shows no obvious sign of problems. I have not
> yet checked for an X11 boot log to see if problems are creeping up
> there, but I am also less clear where such a log would be.
>
> Mike (using Linux for several years now, but still just beginning)
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Mike,

It is probably too trivial to mention, but given that you have a
specific issue in your current environment, you will want to try
LiveCDs for any distro you consider switching to.  If the LiveCD has
the same problem, you know quickly to try another without having
changed anything.  That said, I see the best results generally being
ubuntu as well.

-- 
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only
animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and
what they ought to be.
  - William Hazlitt