The [Main] What Distro should YOU use?

[The Mas]

Mepis
Hands down the easiest and most user friendly.
Give the LiveCD a try!
Mepis 7.0 should be final soon.

Al

In 2007 that was a great choice. In 2019, one rarely mentioned distribution that descended from MEPIS, and uses a Debian packaging scheme with stable versions of it's own software builds is antiX.

Version 17 (with updates) is about as solid and stable as anything I use, and it's light, fast, and efficient too, more so than Lubuntu. Though "based" on Debian, it is also arguably more stable than Debian because the specific combination of apps have been tested together for use with older hardware.

[nour]

The rise and fall of Damn Small Linux is one of those tales along the lines of a great concept executed well. The idea was to create a Linux distro that was small enough to fit on a credit-card sized CD-ROM. With a target size of 50MB or less, this format certainly concentrates the developers' minds if they also want to create a hassle-free user experience.

For the most part, DSL does succeed. Based on the grandfather of all Live CDs, Knoppix Pnr Status TextNow VPN, DSL strips out layer after layer of non-essential stuff, while leaving a core working system.

I'm using Lubuntu on an old PC,
There is some issues when it cames to installing new software but, in general, it's good.

[The Mas]

In 2007 that was a great choice. In 2019, one rarely mentioned distribution that descended from MEPIS, and uses a Debian packaging scheme with stable versions of it's own software builds is antiX.

Version 17 (with updates) is about as solid and stable as anything I use, and it's light, fast, and efficient too, more so than Lubuntu. Though "based" on Debian, it is also arguably more stable than Debian because the specific combination of apps have been tested together for use with older hardware.

Also, MX is another MEPIS derivative that is now based on antiX rather than MEPIS. MX is more user and desktop oriented; it uses the Xfce desktop. AntiX is lighter, using window managers (IceWM, Fluxbox, JWM) instead of desktop managers and antiX also chooses smaller, simpler applications than most distributions, resulting in a reasonably small, fast interface.