ric_man wrote:

> Scott Smith wrote: 
>
> I'd say SUSE was one of the best Linux distros I've ever used... was
> great at detecting many things straight out of the box...
> 
>
> If you're lazy (like me), I'd say giving Gentoo ( http://www.gentoo.org/
> ) a go. You'll only go through the pain of installing once, and then
> you'll be incrementally upgrading bit by bit... the only problem is that
> you'll have to compile a lot (which takes time on slow systems), and
> you'll have to compile your own kernel (not so bad if you choose the
> defaults, or if you've had experience in it before).
>

If you use that argument, Debian is an even better bet. Here also, one needs
to install only once and upgrade incrementally through apt-get.

Plus, he won't have to compile anything.

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