Having been a Linux user for nearly 10 years, I have tried quite a few distros, Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, Mint, Slackware, Ubuntu Kubuntu. Debian was my favourite, leaving it and, especially, Apt behind was a wrench, But it was too easy to break, Not Debian’s fault, just my cack handedness, I just have to fiddle, especially at 3 in the morning after too many rums. Open suse is the distro I have stuck with since v 10.3 and have been really happy with. Even with that I have been through dramas, (who was it that broke the wireless light on my Thinkpad?). So I would have to say that I have tried a lot and finally come to the best (for my purposes anyway).