What's your favorite Linux distro?

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I'm contemplating creating my own distro, designed to be a corporate desktop replacement. Playing around with various builds right now. Should be fun.

Ubuntu crashed on a weekly basis when I was using it (and it's infamous for it's kernel panics). Mint (better than the OS it's based on, but not as good as Arch) started misbehaving once I installed the latest kernel, something that did not happen with Arch. I have installed plenty of extensions and "frills" to my Arch Linux. It still beats Ubuntu, because Ubuntu is more than half a billion lines of messy code. It has never given me the black screen of death so far.

QED.

So I just found this little gem while searching around, and even before I've tried it out, I can almost guarantee that this will immediately get installed on my linux workstations: http://qubes-os.org/trac/wiki

I've only installed Ubuntu, which makes it my favorite. But I'm posting to offer advice and a warning. "Regular" Ubuntu comes with Unity, a GUI which I despise. I'm not alone. If you do a little research, you will find many complaints about it. I also tried Gnome (GNOME?). Unfortunately, the current version, Gnome 3, is at least almost exactly like Unity. I finally found out how to install Xubuntu. There is a simple command you can enter at the command line (using "apt-get") that does it all. No more Gnome. I'm not sure whether and how I should uninstall Gnome,

I think this post is highly distrospecful!! !

^Not getting the pun there...

All I can say about Ubuntu is that it was my distro that led me into the world of Linux, and I am thankful for that but there came a point where I got bored with its limitations of the linux world.

I think this is the very philosophy of Ubuntu, Marke Shuttleworth himself said he doesn't want the "leets". It's not intended for the more advanced users who wants to hack, learn or experiment with Linux. It's intended for the beginners who just want a running system so that they can try it out and get familiar with Linux, and those who just want to use Linux without caring what's going on "beneath the hood"

I totally agree with you, though. Ubuntu was my first Linux distro. It did want I wanted and worked well. But when they introduced Unity, I decided to try other distros. I've tested out various different distros ( Debian, Mint, Fedora. )

I've landed on Arch and Manjaro. Manjaro is based on Arch, but comes with the things you need out of the box. Manjaro makes it easier to get the bootloader working ( it was a hassle with my UEFI laptop. ) And it comes with bumblebee installed so I don't have to fiddle with nvidia / noveau and the x config files.

Have you folks heard of Salix?

Having used Slackware for years I stumbled on Salix. It is a cut down version of Slackware I suppose. It's logo is a bonsai tree, meaning lightness and elegance.

I'm using the 32-bit XFCE edition, it's blazing fast with an Athlon 4000+, 2gb ddr400 and an old 6600gt agp graphics card, especially fast in compiz any one wants to try it out.

salixos.org

I use a stripped down version (distributed and modified by my university) of Slackware that's modified for low-level programming. Almost no user-space content whatsoever (no GUI, no package manager that does anything for you, etc.), apart from the BASH shell, GCC, Nano, Vim, and the very basics. It would be extremely tedious to use for everyday purposes, but it's still neat to have a distro that does just one thing, but excels at it.

Slackware based distros are one of the few distros (together with Puppy Linux) that has acceptable performance when you boot them live.

Yes. It has G++. I've also installed Go (Golang) in it.