It's still in Alpha testing, but it ran very smoothly for me. I'm not too familiar with either Openbox or the Xfce Desktop environment, but I chose to install Xfce. I love the look and feel of Crunchbang. It ran extremely well on my machine, and although it is still in the alpha stage of testing, I didn't experience any glitches at all. However, I'm so used to Gnome that I didn't extend my visit there. I then tried out Linux Mint, after hearing so many positive things about it. Although it's based on Ubuntu, in my opinion, it ran so much more smoother than Ubuntu. Compiz was active from the first bootup and everything felt so familiar.
I really enjoyed Linux Mint 9 and would probably go back to Mint when they release a Debian based version sometime in the future. Lastly, I downloaded and installed Fedora 13. One of the only reasons that I did so was that I heard it mentioned so much on the Linux Outlaws podcast as well as on Identi.ca, that I had to see for myself.
The install and the setup was very easy, although the package management methods are different. Fedora froze on my system several times, and I suspect that Firefox was partially to blame. Fedora ran with Firefox 3.7, while the latest Ubuntu still only installs Firefox 3.6. Fedora is considered more cutting edge as well as being very secure system. I was constantly prompted for passwords when dropping to root. I also found way too many SE Linux popups for my liking. I thought about turning it off, and wondered if everyone did this eventually. That would kind of defeat the purpose.One major point that had me remove it and install Ubuntu was the LVM2 volume manager. I found that I couldn't access my secondary drive containing Ubuntu created files under ext4. I was wanting to transfer the files to use with Fedora, but in the end I gave up. This brings me to the present day and a brand new install of Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop.
For the moment, I'm back home again.
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