<div dir="ltr">I can second Gentoo. It's a great place to learn. But the maintenance cost is high. I currently only have one box running Gentoo. I've been using mint for about a year or so. Great general purpose distribution, it's based on ubuntu.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 5:49 AM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 02/28/2015 07:19 PM, Edward James Monson, II wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
><br>
> I've been using various flavors of Ubuntu for about 5 years, and I'm ready to<br>
> try something new. I'm fairly comfortable with the command line. I'm curious<br>
> what distributions people on this list use, and how they rate in difficulty<br>
> compared to Ubuntu. I'd also prefer to use something a lot of other people<br>
> use so I have more people I can run to for help. :)<br>
<br>
Depends on your goals for learning something new.<br>
<a href="http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/11/05/learning-linux-easy-to-hard" target="_blank">http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/11/05/learning-linux-easy-to-hard</a><br>
<br>
If you are in the US and want to be a Linux admin or programmer, centos or<br>
fedora would make sense.<br>
<br>
If you want to be a kernel dev, gentoo.<br>
<br>
If you want to learn the internals, just for fun, and constantly tweak things<br>
that break - arch.<br>
<br>
If you just need a distro for online banking - TinyCore.<br>
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