I would recommend Ubuntu or

Tsid — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:21:07 +0000

I would recommend Ubuntu or maybe Fedora. I like the first one - it is mostly desktop-oriented and becoming better from release to release..

That's what I chose, and am

greg — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:35:23 +0000

That's what I chose, and am on 8.10 as we ~~speak~~ type.

It's probably not critical

pr0gr4mm3r — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:37:30 +0000

It's probably not critical on desktops.

Didn't see your reply till

Renegade — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:15:05 +0000

Didn't see your reply till now...

Yeah... there have been but sometimes I don't really restart till absolutely necessary. Don't think the updates were THAT important though...

Were they? Or am I just ignorant?

how about ubuntu

GianaSedeng — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:54:45 +0000

how about ubuntu

Yeah. I don't mind learning

greg — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:23:29 +0000

Yeah. I don't mind learning a few. Suppose that way I can at least eventually get my own preference

I presume there will be no

pr0gr4mm3r — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:50:27 +0000

I presume there will be no real advantages to running my main desktop on the same as the server?

Not really - other then you will master the operating system quicker and better when you only have to learn one.

So Ubuntu is the fave in

greg — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:47:13 +0000

So Ubuntu is the fave in here so far. I might just get that.
I am actually making a home server which will use Debian. I presume there will be no real advantages to running my main desktop on the same as the server?

09:24:50 up 107 days, 17:47,

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:43:39 +0000

09:24:50 up 107 days, 17:47, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.03

There has been kernel updates since then.

I started on Red Hat/Fedora

Renegade — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:25:09 +0000

I started on Red Hat/Fedora then ran into what was then "dependency hell". When that was working for me though, it was quite stable and fast.

Now I'm using Ubuntu and have been since around about when it first started, been very happy with it since.

My current uptime is:
09:24:50 up 107 days, 17:47, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.03

Had to restart cause I installed a new hard drive.

If you're stuck on choice, try Ubuntu