Arch vs. Slackware, a friendly comparison
As you might know, there are about a hundred thousand million billion Linux distributions. (For those who don’t know, the “Linux” core is an operating system kernel, and people take it and build collections of software around it called “distributions“, and people install these distributions, and then, in casual conversation, call the distribution “Linux“. All this adds up to confusion for people who don’t already know it all.)
Which distro you choose depends a lot on what type of user you are, and how dirty you want your hands to get. For many people, this is, “I’m a normal user, and I don’t want to get my hands dirty.” (I recommend the Ubuntu distribution for these folks.) Some people might want to run a server; in that case Red Hat (or CentOS) is a good one. Of course, there are many, many good ones (I’ll put a nod here in for BSD.)
But that’s not what this post is about.
