Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 22nd Nov 2004 20:12 UTC
I admit that I'm a geek. I use Linux. I use Solaris. I use FreeBSD. At times, I use Windows. And without a doubt, I download and try almost every Linux distribution when they come out. Over the last few years, I've tried all of the RedHat/Fedora releases, 2 different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on.
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"It's long past the time where people respect you anymore because you're working a "harder" distro."
Sadly not true. People often don't understand why I still use Mandrake after several years; there are still people out there who think there's some kind of 'obligation' to upgrade to a more 3l33t distro like debian or gentoo after some kind of 'training wheels' period with a non-l33t distro like MDK or SuSE.
note - I'm not knocking debian or gentoo. They're fine distributions and there are many reasons to love them. But they're not innately more 'l33t' or 'cool' or 'hardcore' than any other distro. Sorry, cool kids.