Suggest Ubuntu Alternative

[LightBit]

I find Mint to be actually worse than Ubuntu "right now". But its reputation is ofc much better. Still, they use Ubuntu packages,.. which leaves a bit of taste in mouth... Its like using WINE for gaming, if you know what I mean.

There is also debian based Mint: http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

[brosis]

There is also debian based Mint: http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Used it, sucks great deal.
- very inconsequently built
- repository is not full debian repository
- actually, its not rolling release; its "wave-release", which means it may break compatiblity with debian itself.
- (debian specific) no ppa
- a lot of automation missing, which you expect from for-noob distro

it feels like debian, behaves like debian, so why not debian instead. But debian is definitely not for-noob distro. A lot of functionality one expects on Ubuntu, is RTFM and "do yourself" thing on Debian.

[alexcortes]

Mageia?
Chakra?
PCLinuxOS?

[ElderSnake]

How about Fuduntu? http://www.fuduntu.org/

Fedora based OS that strives for the easy nature of Ubuntu and even has jockey-gtk etc.

It is Gnome 2 though... if you miss G2 you may love it but then it may also seem out-dated to you. Still it (Fuduntu) gets a good rap most places.

If you want an easier and out of the box Arch system, but still have the inherent power and bleeding edge of Arch, there's always Manjaro Linux http://manjaro.org/

[intellivision]

I'm a big KDE fan, and pretty much if you want to go with that then I recommend Rosa. Or if you're feeling adventurous and not installing it on a laptop, PC-BSD.

But if you do prefer other UIs, then there would be better options out there for you.

[LightBit]

What about openSUSE?

[CthuIhux]

what about gNewSense.

[xpander]

Arch(if you want to learn linux) or Mint (if you want ubuntu based)

[Whizard72]

Oh hell they ALL suck in some way.

[nightmarex]

Oh hell they ALL suck in some way.

Seriously...


Okay so Mint leaves that bad Ubuntu taste in your mouth? Arch unnerves you? Well that restricts your greatly.

KDE based
Chakra
OpenSuse (12.3 releases soon)

Gnome
Fedora
Mageia
PCLinuxOS


Since it's free try them all on a banger box or virtual machine and see if you dig any of them... if not. Windows 7 or OsX =) .