Just a thought. You might want to consider one of the BSD variants, just to explore a somewhat different system architecture. For everyday use, I find Ubuntu g

Just a thought. You might want to consider one of the BSD variants, just to explore a somewhat different system architecture. For everyday use, I find Ubuntu good enough, although I do wish they'd break fewer things every six months. I suspect I'll eventually migrate my Arch usage from "tinkering" to everyday usage. Another thought: Tiny Core Linux - a minimalist distribution that runs out of RAM. The ISO image is only 10 MB, and the design is based on only loading those applications you need when you're using them. There are tons of applications already packaged online, so many people find it sufficient as their everyday OS. Personally, I put it in the tinkering category like Arch because the design is based on a specific design attitude that's different from the mainline distributions.