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Ubuntu, because it's the most popular desktop distribution right now. Software for the popular distributions tends to be more well distributed, tested, and supp

by staunch 12y ago

Ubuntu, because it's the most popular desktop distribution right now. Software for the popular distributions tends to be more well distributed, tested, and supported. I've run Linux as my desktop for 17 years and that's why I'm running Ubuntu. I hardly care at this point which distribution I run. They're mostly quite similar and almost all rely on exactly the same software for most of what they do.

galfarragem 12y ago
+1 to Ubuntu. Meteor (officially) only supports Linux and OSX, so I run Ubuntu along Win7. Some time ago I tried Mint. Mint is basically last version of Ubuntu with windows inspired niceties (theme and drivers). I still prefer the main distro. As a Windows user Linux environment hurts a bit. Windows have a GUI for almost everything, Linux not so, even if you can easily make stuff through Terminal (like installing software) that makes you think that Linux approach is not that bad. The problem is the huge learning curve (at least for an hobbyist as me). It's like driving a Ferrari at night without knowing how to use the lights. You feel the speed in the moments that you know what you are doing and can see the way but sometimes you have to completely stop because you are in the dark..