I’ve used Ubuntu Linux for a number of years and have found it to be an excellent distro of Linux. It is by far one of the most popular (if not the most popular) version of Linux around and has a huge user base.

However, I’ve been looking into trying a different distro for some time now. I enjoy trying out different distros to see what is available in the Linux community. I’ve tried almost 15 different distros, covering every major one out there ( other than Arch and Slackware ). I came across PCLinuxOS last week and was hoping to install it over spring break.

However, for some reason my root partition ( I did a cold reboot when the system hung doing a hard-drive intensive operation ) got corrupted and I needed to reinstall my OS. I really didn’t want to take the time to reinstall, but this is my only system and I need it for school.

So, I installed PCLinuxOS and I was very impressed. All my hardware worked out of the box (even 3D acceleration with aiglx). I was very impressed! The system is very responsive and snappy. I haven’t used it for long, but I think PCLinuxOS is definitely a distro to check into!