Worst Distro you disliked

[acal3000]

I like a lot Linux as you already know. But as anyone can be some distro some of use like and make us harcore and othe just make us :angryfire

I have tested several distros by now. i don't want to make a poll since they are too many that won't even fit all the selections that just fit in a poll so just name them

For me the one that was a pile of crap ( i know Linux is freedom of choice and all have to find it's path so if you like this distro you use it this just my personal opinion) was Suse 10.3. Man its a pile of crap looks like Windows XP and Linux when was created by Linux Tolvards in 1993 was never meant to be a Windows clone so contradict the originals principles Linux was meant to be( and was whe he made his phrase "if you try your users as idiots you will have idiots users")
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It don't even deserve be called a Linux OS in my opinion it's an insult to the Linux/Unix world. It bugged slow and yast is horrible, slow looks like windows installer fail to autoconfigure properly the hardware a lot

Also NOTE one thing due to nature of this forums and most here Win users can get upset since I have known for this a lot of times

So this time let's you give out Windows vs Linux flamewar aside

Just cite the distro you don't like and your reasons but without making a flamewar

Thanks

So cite yours

[JN4OldSchool]

Hello Acal,

I do not mean this to sound bad, I think this is a very good topic, and you gave some good reasons to dislike SuSE. I dislike SuSE because they sold out. They are now "in bed" with Microsoft, and while do use Vista because of school, I would not even consider looking at SuSE anymore. But when I did use it I tended to agree with your assessment. Yast really sucks.

But, I feel that this thread could be misrepresented. By this I mean that 9 times out of ten...no, 99 times out of 100, people will dislike a distro simply because they could not make it work. Is this wrong? No, we are allowed our perceptions. But I couldnt drive an F1 race car even close to its intended standard with the knowledge I currently have. Does this mean the car sucks? No, it means I suck, at least as far as driving race cars. You catch my drift? I see this day in and day out because Fedora just happens to be one of those distros geared towards people who can "drive F1 cars" as far as Linux goes. It is a specialized distro with a specialized purpose, which is to be at the forefront, to use the latest components. Gentoo is even more involved. How many people have tried Gentoo and couldnt even get it installed? If they did happen to get that far then Portage probably stopped them in their tracks. Yet Portage is great once you learn how to use it and Gentoo is an awesome distro, as is Slackware. I consider debian stable to be the "perfect" Linux distro because it is the gold standard of what Linux is. It is Linux at its most stable, most generic/vanilla, and it is completely orthodox in structure. But I cannot use it because it bores me. :) I consider Linux Mint to be the best beginner's distro. It is basically a fine tuned, polished Ubuntu. It does set up a root account by default (Ubuntu makes a serious mistake by not doing so, sudo is fine, but the Ubuntu implimentation is too weak, very insecure. But, you CAN create an SU account in Ubuntu) and it has many codecs installed by defaut and those that arent prompt the user with a point and click GUI popup. It is visually pleasing, very solid, uses the .deb repos so package management is no problem, and all in all is a very pleasant distro.I do use this one for two of my kids, and the 7 year old especially uses this distro with ease.

What distros do I dislike? Besides Suse, which I dislike for reasons other than the capability of the OS, I really do not dislike any distro. I try them all in vmware and virtualbox, the new GNUstep live based on debian is VER cool, I have used Solaris and BSD also. Many distros have components I dislike, but I am advanced enough to recognize that much of my dislike may be due to unfamiliarity more than anything else. Just the sheer fact that I do not yet understand how to use it. To me this is a challenge, and is why I dabble like I do. I love the learning process, I like using new things. But my heart belongs to Fedora, it just fits me like my old pair of bluejeans. It is most often buggy, updates can break things, it is fast moving with a new version every six months and I am a guinea pig for the most stable distros. Fedora is a development distro. And I love every second of it.

[acal3000]

Hello Acal,

I do not mean this to sound bad, I think this is a very good topic, and you gave some good reasons to dislike SuSE. I dislike SuSE because they sold out. They are now "in bed" with Microsoft, and while do use Vista because of school, I would not even consider looking at SuSE anymore. But when I did use it I tended to agree with your assessment. Yast really sucks.

But, I feel that this thread could be misrepresented. By this I mean that 9 times out of ten...no, 99 times out of 100, people will dislike a distro simply because they could not make it work. Is this wrong? No, we are allowed our perceptions. But I couldnt drive an F1 race car even close to its intended standard with the knowledge I currently have. Does this mean the car sucks? No, it means I suck, at least as far as driving race cars. You catch my drift? I see this day in and day out because Fedora just happens to be one of those distros geared towards people who can "drive F1 cars" as far as Linux goes. It is a specialized distro with a specialized purpose, which is to be at the forefront, to use the latest components. Gentoo is even more involved. How many people have tried Gentoo and couldnt even get it installed? If they did happen to get that far then Portage probably stopped them in their tracks. Yet Portage is great once you learn how to use it and Gentoo is an awesome distro, as is Slackware. I consider debian stable to be the "perfect" Linux distro because it is the gold standard of what Linux is. It is Linux at its most stable, most generic/vanilla, and it is completely orthodox in structure. But I cannot use it because it bores me. :) I consider Linux Mint to be the best beginner's distro. It is basically a fine tuned, polished Ubuntu. It does set up a root account by default (Ubuntu makes a serious mistake by not doing so, sudo is fine, but the Ubuntu implimentation is too weak, very insecure. But, you CAN create an SU account in Ubuntu) and it has many codecs installed by defaut and those that arent prompt the user with a point and click GUI popup. It is visually pleasing, very solid, uses the .deb repos so package management is no problem, and all in all is a very pleasant distro.I do use this one for two of my kids, and the 7 year old especially uses this distro with ease.

What distros do I dislike? Besides Suse, which I dislike for reasons other than the capability of the OS, I really do not dislike any distro. I try them all in vmware and virtualbox, the new GNUstep live based on debian is VER cool, I have used Solaris and BSD also. Many distros have components I dislike, but I am advanced enough to recognize that much of my dislike may be due to unfamiliarity more than anything else. Just the sheer fact that I do not yet understand how to use it. To me this is a challenge, and is why I dabble like I do. I love the learning process, I like using new things. But my heart belongs to Fedora, it just fits me like my old pair of bluejeans. It is most often buggy, updates can break things, it is fast moving with a new version every six months and I am a guinea pig for the most stable distros. Fedora is a development distro. And I love every second of it.

Eh well i guess we are partly at the same boat most distros i have tried havent disliked so much except Suse. I put 4 dustros in vmware on a xp laptop. The most faster seems was Fedora 8 and the most slow and the one ethernet didn't work guess what? Suse

[JN4OldSchool]

Here ya go Acal:

http://io.debian.net/~tar/gnustep/

Try this one out. 500 odd MB live CD. I dont think I could use GNUStep as my WM but I know a few who swear by it. I have never tried it because I didnt want to fight compiling it, but now they have this live CD based on debian. I have been fooling with it the last few days and am considering installing it on a spare partition it really try it out.

[acal3000]

Here ya go Acal:

http://io.debian.net/~tar/gnustep/

Try this one out. 500 odd MB live CD. I dont think I could use GNUStep as my WM but I know a few who swear by it. I have never tried it because I didnt want to fight compiling it, but now they have this live CD based on debian. I have been fooling with it the last few days and am considering installing it on a spare partition it really try it out.

Ok Thanks . Gonna do it but on some hours. My machine hd is rite now filled with some many junk than I need to do cleaning right. i am also downloading the New Wolvix version + the miro player thing i downloaded a bunch highe res videos that also filled my hd with more junk

But gonna do it on some hours