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Someone was asking what the best linux was a while back but now I can't seemed to find the post. Anyways, I have been playing around with a new linux because my Ubuntu didn't seem to have the drivers my Blender requires. I love debian base because the deb package system is just awesome but debian is rough and so is Gentoo. Ubuntu is good for the beginner but it doesn't seem to have much community support anymore. Where did they go? I found out that they are supporting Linux Mint, it has deb and lots of community support. I installed it to my laptop and had both Gimp and Blender up and running in no time. I like it so much that I am using it as I type this. Awesome, take a look:
http://www.linuxmint.com/

I didn't say Ubuntu supported linux mint, I said it has more community support. Meaning the development community. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Linux is great for kids. But when you grow up and install Solaris let me know.

Really now? First, Linux is awesome. Second, I have Open Solaris installed.

Parts of some linux distros are neat... and certainly some of the features within the linux kernel are swell.

But it's also got severe deficiencies.

The TCP/IP Stack on linux for instance is a steaming pile of fecal matter, and there are currently no plans to do anything to prevent it's meteoric fall into the depths of failure. In fact, the entire 2.6 dev cycle has been a massive clusterfsck. I don't know... it seems to me that the linux kernel team is in need of some serious clue by fours.

mint,huh? Never tried it, but it sounds cool. Glad it worked out for you. Out of curiosity, what drivers were missing for Blender that made you try out Mint? Were they modules that weren't in the default Ubuntu kernels? Were they specific versions of other libraries that were needed?

I'm a steadfast Ubuntu user myself. I've gotten really comfortable with it and have learned to deal with its idiosyncrasies as they come up. So far I've been pretty satisfied and use it for everything but gaming at home and for my primary desktop at work as well as all projects that I do there.