And my linux final choice....

Debian Jessie. Hopefully I am not jumping into the Jessie ship too early. It's a Beta 1 release and will be final 1 year from now.
It's a nice refreshment from Wheeze.
Reinstalling the entire system wasn't too bad. I was afraid that I forgot how to do Linux since my last installation 9 months ago but everything came back almost like riding a bicycle again.

 

Congratulations! Jessie is more stable than Testing.

You shouldn't have to re-install the whole system. All you need to do:

1. Change "wheezy" to "jessie" in /etc/apt/sources.list. Then save and close the file.
2. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
3. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (some times necessary)
4. sudo apt-get autoremove
5. deborphan then sudo apt-get remove <file to be removed>

 

I did that but Wheeze took a lot of beating from me so I wanted to start fresh again.

 

It can't be a final choice. There's always room for more choice!
Mrk

 

I tried telling myself that a while ago. Doesn't work.

 

I always come back to Mint LMDE Mate these days...

 

Sure there is more room for choice but for me not so much.
Debian:
- fast
- very few bugs
- native xfce unlike xubuntu which is modified
- low ram requirement so i can have more for vbox
- huge amount of applications to choose from unlike centos
- very popular so lots of support

Centos/OpenSUSE are probably my close 2nd. Centos has fewer packages, has been a little buggy with their new release and for OpenSUSE I don't really like KDE.
Linux Mint is out of question because I don't like the UI and it is super hard to customize what I want to customize. And Ubuntu is Ubuntu.

 

My final choice these days is Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon x64... but as Mrkvonic says, "final" is probably just an illusion....

 

I've been meaning to move over to mint for the peace of mind of the distros future heading direction. Though I do use a few on different machines, Debian for server,elementary os for netbook and currently Ubuntu on the desktop.

They are all the same really

 

My Cent OS still the main platform been so good havent really been following the other faves :Mint, PCLOS ..

Have to go back and lookee lookee

 

For the huge Debian fanboy, figured I'd share this with ya:

The Linux Foundation Video Site:: Debian GNU Linux by Debian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6_bdetBzE

edit

Older video, but it just somehow showed up in my sub feed today