Favourate Distro's best feature?

[zba78]

What feature makes your favourite distro your favourite?

I like openSUSE because it had the best out-of-the-box hardware detection on my laptop (from the ones I tried).

And before SUSE I used Kubuntu for a long time because I found Debian's apt-get package management the best software management system on any OS/distro I've ever used.

So, why do you like yours?

[oz]

What feature makes your favourite distro your favourite?

Arch Linux / pacman package manager

[KenJackson]

I will admit that a large part of the reason I like Mandriva is familiarity. I had installed three successive versions of RedHat but I just couldn't get the hang of it. But I really wanted to use Linux so about five years ago I gave Mandriva a try. It installed easily, with no hiccups and I was finally able to get up and running. So I dumped Windows and made Mandriva Linux my OS of choice.

There are three specific things I like about Mandriva:

• The RPM packaging system gives me excellent control,
• The distro is big enough that most applications that I want are available in an RPM format somewhere,
• The overall system operation and compatibility between packages is refined and smooth.

[{-n()rx-}]

I run Gentoo...and I LOVE portage.
I love a package manager that gives you direct and easy 1 command package installation and management.
...and therefore like ports too

[netstrider]

Ubuntu/Xubuntu

Easy to use because of apt-get
Fast-ish (as compared to others I've tried at least)
Gnome-desktop (I prefer gnome to KDE)
Same with XFCE
...aaand it's just plainly SMART

[zba78]

Arch Linux / pacman package manager

Ah Arch Linux. I loved Arch when I had a PC. Pacman is great. I just couldn't get it going on my laptop (not that I tried for too long)

[oz]

Ah Arch Linux. I loved Arch when I had a PC. Pacman is great. I just couldn't get it going on my laptop (not that I tried for too long)

Version 8.0 will be out soon... maybe you can try it again on the laptop when you have some spare time.

[bidi]

Debian... apt is just simply the best binary package manager out there. The administration tools, such as update-rc.d, module-assistant, etc, are also out of this world. It's kind of funny, because from looking around in this forum I realized very few people actually know how to use the Debian tools (building ndiswrapper is as easy as "module-assistant build ndiswrapper").

[gruven]

I use Gentoo and I use it because of Portage and all of the great utilities it comes with.

rc-update, eselect, etc...

Installing ndiswrapper would be as easy as "emerge ndiswrapper". I figured I would give you the same example as given above.

Portage is hands down the best package manager I have ever used (yes, I think it is better than apt).

[techieMoe]

I don't really have a favorite right now, but here's my favorites from the past and what I thought was their best feature:

Xandros - worked with the ATI card I had at the time, with 3D acceleration out of the box. That was worth the price of admission for me.

SuSE - had everything I needed and then some on the DVDs proper, installable without an internet connection. This is still handy, though I'm not as impressed with SuSE as I used to be.

Debian - apt-get with a broadband connection is awesome.

Ubuntu - they ship the things to you for free. Enough said.

Linspire - buy something on their store and you could download it to as many PCs as you own.

NOTE:: Ubuntu and Linspire aren't technically favorites, but they did have features that I found pretty darn cool.