<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I'm fairly new to Linux (I've dabbled for the past four years or so) and newer still to the group (joined in late December.) I was looking forward to the attending the meeting this week, but I've been fighting a nasty cold so I thought it better to sit this one out and not sneeze on anyone. If anyone has notes from the scripting talk I'd love to see what was covered.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have a question for the group. I've recently purchased a new-to-me ThinkPad X220 with the intention of making it my primary machine running Linux full time. I used to triple boot my MacBook Pro, but I found myself in OS X most of the time, and while I tried virtualization, I couldn't really make myself "work" inside a virtual machine. Now that my wife's laptop died and she started using the MBP more and more, I saw it as an opportunity to finally make the jump.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm most familiar with the Debian family of distros (Debian itself, all flavors of Ubuntu, Mint, CrunchBang, etc.) and I know APT fairly well. Usually I've been trying to find the best disro to get ancient, second-hand hardware to run effectively, so I've also tried out TinyCore, DSL, Puppy, Bohdi, and Antix as well. Now I have a newer machine capable of running just about anything well, and I'd like to pick something that will use the hardware to its full potential.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've been hesitant to stray from APT package management, as that is all I've ever really used, but I read many good things about Arch (and others based on it.) I've read also that if you're at all interested in a Linux profession (something I'm open to down the line) you really should only be using RHEL/CentOS or Fedora. </div>
<div><br></div><div>So my question is what distro do you recommend for someone in my situation? I'm not trying to start a flame war, and I understand there is no "best" distro, only the one that works best for each individual or in each situation. I'm just looking for opinions from folks much more experienced than me about what you use (or have used) and the pros/cons of that choice.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div><br clear="all"><div>-Dan<br><br>"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle</div>
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