I have been trying out a various number of linux distributions in the last couple of years and after like hundres of re-installation on my computers at home, (my gaming PC, my laptop, my wifs laptop, my work laptop and two servers) I still can't decide which one to stick with.
My first contact with linux was a friend of mine using Slackware. I was impressed with the scalability and endless configuration that made it so exciting. I messed up my system a lot and after a while I got tired of doing the installation and compile kernels all day long so I tried Fedora Core 3 or 4 i think it was. I used that for a while and then I followed it up to version 5 or 6 when I started to peek at Ubuntu.
Ubuntu was new, fresh and was based on Debian, a well known rock-solid platform. I used Ubuntu from version 6.04 I think and have been using Ubuntu more or less untill last year when I came across Archlinux.
Archlinux was a new distribution for me, I had never heard of it and I was stunned. Even though you have to all the configuration yourself there is a huge community and probably one of the best wikis around.
Arch linux is also a rolling-release distribution so there are no versions, just use the # pacman -Syu to update the whole system, sexy!
Now I run Arch on every computer I have.
Fedora 11 (Leonidas) is out in a few days and I'' give it a spin and see if it has a chance against the mighty Ubuntu. It probably will since it also uses EXT4, Gnome 2.26, KDE 4.2 and XFCE 4.6.
But for now I'll stick with Arch...
