This all started with the question "Which distro do you use?" on a LUG mailing list. Rather than just offer a short answer there, I felt like offering a somewhat longer, explanatory ramble here. I've used quite a few distributions. My first encounter with an open source operating system was installing Red Hat Linux on a secondary computer when my primary system was running MS Windows some time last century. It didn't go very well, as RHL wasn't able to handle the motherboard integrated gra