[SLUG] Please advise me on my next distribution...

[Stephen O'Neill]

Hi all,

I'm after some advice on what distro I should try next.

I have only used 2 so far - Fedora Core 3 and Suse 9.2.

I liked FC3 - it had a great community with lots of forums to scour for 
tips and help - e.g. getting ATI drivers to work etc plus the latest 
KDE, gnome etc.

I disliked Suse - I can't find a way of getting bleeding edge Gnome 
without buying 9.3; it makes annoying system beeps when shutting 
down/restarting and I find yast doesn't do what it says on the tin in 
all cases - amongst other annoyances!

I have disregarded Mandriva as I see them in a similar vein to Suse - 
with understandably waning upgrade options for their free OS.

The Ubuntu live cd crashes on my machine so I'm not too enamoured to try 
installing it for real.

Debian and slackware look far too scary in general with my limited 
knowledge.

I want a distribution that's not going to take a month of my life 
getting a graphical desktop going then work out how to get samba to 
share my printer - I want everything up and running the same day.

So I kinda think that I should just go back to FC - I did like it after 
all! But then I think that's boring?!

I've eyed up gentoo (do you use that Phil?) but wonder if I'm going to 
have lots of config problems that I don't have the time to fix - is it 
like debian/slackware in scariness?

Anybody else recommend anything else that's shiny?

Steve
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