Well… running Arch Linux has put a halt to my distro hopping for now…  I am totally happy with this distribution.  I guess I will have to keep going, though, if I want to have anything to write about

Of everything I have tried so far, my top 3 favorites at this point in time are:
1. Arch
2. Ubuntu
3. Sabayon

*. Linux Mint  — Still what I recommend to new users/converts

1. Arch is still pretty amazing to me, at least enough to be #1 this time!  It is simple, but complicated at the same time, but upgrades are a snap and the community is great and filled with information.  I could see Arch stopping my distro hopping.  The main downside (for me) is the amount of time that it takes for the initial set up.  This is a sweet distro…if you’re into The Arch Way, that is.

2. Ubuntu – I recently upgraded from 8.04LTS to 9.04, and I’m still liking it a lot.  I don’t use my desktop computer nearly as much these days as I have my iPhone for most emails, and Arch on my laptop which is  usually just more convenient.  Still hard to beat the easy setup/little maintenance of Ubuntu, but did get bumped to # 2.

3. Sabayon is still my third favorite, even though it is pretty dang large.  Here is what I said last time:
“It is based on Gentoo, it is definitely powerful, and runs well even on this junky-ish laptop. Entropy is well laid out and handles updates and package dependencies. Also, emerge/portage is available for packages not contained in the Sabayon repositories. Pros: fast. flexible. stable, for the most part. everything works as it should. Cons: have had a couple of bugs, but definitely nothing major.“

I liked sidux a lot, but it had to get bumped by Arch.  sidux may end up bumping Sabayon though….I’m not too sure yet.

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