So, I've been known to use a variety of different versions of Linux, on different systems. And I'm curious about you guys.

What distribution do you use? What type of system do you run it on? Do you multiboot, and if so, what OS's do you use?

Presently, I'm using openSUSE 11.1, although I also have used Ubuntu 7.04, 8.04, 8.10, and 9.04. I tried out Gentoo but didn't like it.

I'm using it on a Compaq Presario v2000, which originally came with Windows XP installed on it. Processor is an AMD Sempron 3300+ 2GHz, RAM is 1GB. Has a GeForce 6000-series built-in chipset.

I'm not dualbooting anything right now, but I'm planning on using Ubuntu with it if it's easy enough to get it to recognize my Broadcom wireless (bcm4318 chip). SUSE was easy to work it out with, so maybe Ubuntu will be too. I'd also like to run Windows 7 on it once it's completely available, if it'll run smoothly enough on an older system such as this.

I'm i just upgraded to ubuntu 9.04 last week. I have it running on home built computer with a 2.6 duo core, 4 gig of ram and an old nvidia 8600gt video card. I have vista on my gaming computer so i have no reason to dual boot. The install of ubuntu 9.04 was great, it loaded every driver i needed for my hardware. The only pain the the ass so far is getting restricted formats(wmv, rm, ect) to work in mplayer.

I really like the appearance and feel upgrades in Ubuntu 9.04 over 8.10. Definitely going to be doing the dual-boot when I can.

I want to upgrade the RAM in both my laptops (both take DDR SO-DIMM, max 2GB, which is what I want to upgrade to), but DDR is still expensive. DDR2 is cheap now though. =|

For mainstream distros, I prefer Fedora over SuSE over 'buntu.

Also, I think Gentoo is for masochists.

Ubuntu 8.10 on an Athlon 64 1.9GHz dual core. 2 Gigs of RAM. Radeon Xpress 1250 built in.

I have no experience whatsoever with Fedora. What benefits does it have over SUSE?

also: I also have experience with RedHat, but that's only in server-operation and does not count.

I had some experiences with Ubuntu... The last 3 versions I think. I liked them and if I wasn't playing some games on my PC (mainly Sims and Fable), I would have kept it. =/

It was very nice for a free OS.

I started with Debian quite some years ago but never used it on my main machine. It was just to run an eggdrop bot at first and then some servers I played around with. Dabbled a bit in SuSE (I was living in Germany and that was actually pretty popular there, well at least CS circles), but somehow I liked Debian more.

Started using Ubuntu around its version 7, went back to windows due to problems with overscan issues over HDMI. Went back to Ubuntu 8 when I let the PS3 handle the media server, now I'm on Ubuntu 9.04. Still have my WinXP dual boot but haven't used it much.

Core 2 duo 3Ghz, 3 GB DDR2, old and annoying NVidia 8800GTS. I used not to like laptops but now I'm actually thinking of getting a laptop as my main in a year or two and making this one into a storage/torrent/media server or getting one of those NAS servers.

Im running ubuntu v9.04 on both my old laptop (pentium M 1.8 GHz and 1 GB DDR - 333 ram) as well as xp pro.

As for my new laptop (2.4 GHz intel core 2 duo 4 GB DDR2) im just running vista home premium 64 bit.

My gaming PC (AMD Phenom II 955 3.2 GHz OC to 4.0 Ghz with 8 GB DDR3 ram with 2 ATI 4890s crossfired) is running vista ultimate 64 bit as well as Ubuntu v9.04

Fedora boasts better repository management than SuSE by a very wide margin. Yumex (Yum Extender) is also much faster than YaST's package manager and easier to search through.  It doesn't come with media repositories like SuSE does but I find Livna provides most everything I need in that area.

There's also the old SELinux (Fedora) vs AppArmor (SuSE/'buntu) debate.  SELinux is more robust and powerful.  App Armor has a better learning curve and is more efficient.

Performance-wise, Fedora seems to be better.  It's just faster all-around than SuSE.  As you go down in specs, SuSE tends to hang more while Fedora is more likely to freeze just a single application if it bottlenecks.  I'm usually running Fedora with Gnome (versus SuSE with KDE/YaST) so that may be a factor at some level.  On a low-spec machine, I can run Fedora with Beryl/compiz effects at roughly the same speed as SuSE and no special effects.

Still, those are quibbles.  After you use a distro long enough, you'll get used to its package management and most users don't care about SELinux or AppArmor (or know what they are probably).  Both are great distros and I'm actually using SuSE right now.  SuSE is nice, but I'm more familiar with the in's and out's of Fedora.  If something breaks on a distro, it's easier for me to find the problem and correct it with a terminal on  Fedora machine than SuSE because I know it better.  Once Fedora 11 comes out, I'll probably blow away SuSE and give it a whirl.