Years ago, I actually preferred installing Linux distributions that required a bit of extra work out of the box. Why? They challenged me, and I knew that my effort would be rewarded with an operating system perfectly suited for me . Sometimes, the challenge was getting all the software necessary for me to do my thing; other times, it was getting the desktop environment exactly how I wanted it. Either way, that work never failed to pay off. Also: This is my favorite Linux distro of all time and...
