Which Linux distribution do you use most frequently?

I use something I am sorry to see not mentioned here. What is this something? DAMN SMALL LINUX!!!!! It is the best distro EVER!!! I am 13 years old, and as such will do IT work for my school for free, with the added benefit that I get out of class free. I am soon to have my MCTS certification, and I cannot tell you how much ALWAYS having a copy of DSL with me has helped me. If there are any other users of this wonderful distro, please reply. DSL FTW!!!

All distributions are the same:
1. Packaged up binaries
2. A stance against closed source binaries
3. No support out of the box for retail DVD's
4. Some support some video / audio formats others don't
5. Drivers for your video card are sub-par compared to a retail Walmart computers
6. ...

See if the developers of these distributions would just focus on the user experience then Linux would have one distribution and one vision.

Problems:
Debian is too busy worrying about packages for documents, packages for binaries, packages for other packages like source code. Obsessive Compulsive. Slackware is too worried about remaining politically correct with source code authors. Fedora is too worried about patent infringement. Which they basically all are. Ubuntu is nice about spreading the software out but they leave you with a very operational but generic system.

Mandriva and SUSE well... same as same is.

People want 10 things from the expensive toy they bought at Walmart, BestBuy.
1. Surf the net
2. To read and send email
3. Play a few games fast
4. Watch a few videos, DVD's
5. Write a paper
6. Work on some bills
7. Look at Photos off the camera
8. Listen to music
9. Entertain the kids
10. Relax to just playing with the computer

Chances are if you bought a computer at a retail store, it's a laptop and it's an Intel video card.
It runs great with Vista and crap with Linux.

The truth hurts.

So if you want the great experience. You're going to have to:
1. Recompile the kernel for your hardware, Core2 processor/Voluntary Preemption/1000mhz clock/ no tick timer
2. Recompile the font library, libfreetype2 to support subpixel hinting and various other disabled options (apple/microsoft) stuff
3. Compile your own version of Xwindows based on beta code for the i945gm and newer Intel cards
4. Tweak lots of options that should be easier to enable like KMplayer's ability to use flash
5. Download flash and install it because Firefox is too afraid to by default.
6. spend alot of your non free time doing all this crap you hate.

Share the pain is the moto.
Never share the answer.

I have used Linux Mint past couple of years. have tried the top 10 but always go back to Mint 64 bit.

Mint (works perfectly!) and Sabayon (I like KDE and there is not a amd64 KDE version of Mint).

puppy

trustix 2.2

I use Zenwalk wich is slackware based

All the way with Mint!!!

Still Freespire(going to miss it when I eventually have to upgrade).

I use puppy linux. It runs really well on old equipment and at supersonic speeds on current kit.

In the process of working on a new book, I managed to crash my primary Linux machine which ran Ubuntu Studio 8.04. Based on some of the research I was doing for the book, when I went to reinstall the OS, I used Mint 6, then added all of the Ubuntu Studio packages I'd been using. Mint is great! I've worked with both the normal GNOME and KDE versions and it just works, period. It's a wonderfully well thought out and executed distribution.

Just for reference, I run Debian on my server, Mepis (dual-booted with Vista) on my laptop, and Puppy (dual booted with WinXP) on my notebook. However, after my experience on my primary Linux desktop machine, I'm planning to replace Mepis on my laptop with Mint as well. Mint's out-of-the-box functionality and hardware detection rival that of Mepis. That it also gives me access to the vast Ubunutu repositories is added incentive.

arch all day on everything

Mint

Linux Mint 7rc1. Everything works.

On my desktop computer I use OpenSUSE Linux 11.1 with KDE. It's stable and easy to configure (thanks to YaST2). I'm trying to stay away from commercial linux distributions (SLED, Mandriva, etc) because it doesn't feel right to use a commercial version of a free software (but this is another discussion). I'm sorry to see here that Ubuntu has 46% and OpenSUSE only 5%. I think OpenSUSE is far more mature and easier to configure than Ubuntu (with a GUI tool, not editing config files by hand). I have nothing against Ubuntu, nor their users, but it's artificial. There are many linux distributions out there alot better than Ubuntu (see Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, ...). Anyway, I think that's a matter of taste (rather than technical issues) in choosing the "right" desktop OS.

A version of Crunch Bang for the EEE PC. Best Linux distro I've tried, even better than Ubuntu or Xubuntu.

I use Open SuSE. Every day.

xandros on asus eee-pc, pre-installed, do i have a choice?

I'm an RHCE working in a primarily-Windows consulting shop. I handle the handful of RedHat, CentOS, and VMWare ESX servers we support, but the majority of the installs I support are OpenWRT routers (usually running Shorewall firewalls and OpenVPN tunnels from remote stores to a central office).

I only use GNU/Linux distros built with 100% Free Software.

With GLX reintegrated 3D now works, Compiz included.

Knoppix