I've been noticing at http://distrowatch.com/ the rapid upward movement of one debian based distro
( the one whose name sounds like something you do when you go to the toilet ).
I realized that I'm as opinionated as the people at boards who brag about "their" distro, and
I suspect I could get some heat about this post but my clothing labels inform me that they're
flame resistant.
People have tribal leanings and even though we're in this open source experiment we tend to
look for even smaller groups to identify with, and then attack or compete with ones we don't identify with.
It does irk me that it has to be so competive. I know there are benefits to that too-still it bothers me.
I don't like the distro that's on that rapid rise at distrowatch. In my opinion it isn't as flexible or as much
fun as knoppix. The rapid riser, seems, in my opinion, to be positioning itself to become a big commercial linux,
and they rave about their chosen favorite alot too. ( I used to frequent their user board )
I have used about a dozen different linux's. Amoung them suse, mandrake, debian woody, slackware, bsd,
xandros, gnoppix, jamd, dyne:bolic, the afore-mentioned quick riser and of course knoppix.
I'm using slack right now. I couldn't get xine to work in knoppix but it works great in slack. Sometimes
the less "jazzy" distro's have great features. I've found slack to be really the best for figuring out a problem
and then sometimes I can apply the solution to one of the other distros. (I multi boot 7 installed linux's).
There are, I think, always positives and negatives with any experiance which includes software.
The two distros I use and like the most are knoppix and slackware.