Ubuntu & CentOS. - Jacek Artymiak

Simply Mepis. - Citronella

Ubuntu - Kashif Khan

Ubuntu or Debian, for now. - Tanath

Mint looks less polished than my Ubuntu, TBH. What extra goodies are there? I already have some 3rd-party repos... - Tanath

Gentoo, Ubuntu, or Debian. There are a lot of decent distros, though. - donato

Also, Mint is only run by a few people. Seems to me their efforts would be more productive by contributing to Ubuntu, which they rely heavily on. - Tanath

Fedora - Victor Ganata

Ubuntu for the workstation and Redhat Enterprise/CentOS for the production server. - imabonehead

Ubuntu & BackTrack :D - TiTi

SuSE - Marcos

Since I love my Windows and hate rebooting, I guess I'd have to say pUbuntu. http://portableubuntu.demonccc... - April

Ubuntu and Linux Mint - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

I'm actually a much bigger fan of the BSD's for servers. - Mark Woodson

Eeebuntu is my fave for my Eee PC 900A - Tom Silk from twhirl

I like Ubuntu, and I learn a lot from the community - Juvenn Woo from fftogo

I have tried a ton but keep coming back to Ubuntu. I like Linux Mint as it is a lot more pleasing to look at right out of the box than Ubuntu but I agree with Tanath, the Mint Team would be doing the world a favor if they would join with the main Ubuntu Team to make better use of their talents to help the base Ubuntu look and feel much better. I don't care what GDM or Desktop Wallpaper you put on it, the old brown and orange Ubuntu is really, really stale. Considering that Ubuntu is typically the first Linux Distro a lot of people use, you would think they would want to work on the Look and Feel a little more. - Kevin Darty

Christopher: I didn't say anything about the number of users, but rather than it's only run/managed by a few people. Ubuntu has _far_ more people maintaining it. Also, I didn't say the default Ubuntu looks more polished, but rather that _my_ install of Ubuntu seems more polished than the default Mint (according to screenshots). TBH though, Ubuntu is getting pretty polished lately. - Tanath

Ubuntu because I'm lazy and short of time - Alec Clews

I'd have to say Ubuntu or Debian for desktop, and Centos for server distributions. Centos seems faster and more reliable than the others when used as a server. - Marlin Forbes

ubuntu for most desktops, damn small linux, tinycorelinux, xubuntu, and sidux xfce for lightweight desktop, ubuntu server, debian, centos, jeos,, freebsd, openbsd, or open solaris for servers, edubuntu, fedora, knoppix, for specialized applications, and geexbox for multimedia - Mike Chelen

Kevin: mint development helps the other linux derivatives too because whatever they generate can be freely merged into other distros - Mike Chelen

Mike: Which takes more time & effort than if they were contributing to Ubuntu directly. - Tanath

Most *buntus (eg., Kubuntu, Xubuntu) are really the same distro with different defaults (mainly which packages are installed), so most effort that goes into one directly aids the others. Personally, I have multiple desktop environments installed anyway. - Tanath