Ubuntu 9.10 (beta)

So what will you try now?  Will you come back to the Suse?  Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mint, etc, etc, etc?

Might I recommend "Opensuse 11.1" or 11.2 will be out next month...

I'm currently testing opensuse milestone 8.
Apart from the odd issue it's looking very solid. The new look is very nice too.
The clincher for me is KDE 4.3.x as it has matured to a solid desktop environment. I have followed it's development closely. opensuse 11.1 was pretty good but the kde desktop gave me a few issues. All are sorted in the milestone. I have the nvidia 185.x.x driver working perfectly. (not via one-click) the 2.6.31 kernel supports my x-fi card finally (had it running on older kernel after adding module) so all in all the 11.2 release is likely to be my future home.

I have tried many distros but always ended up back to either suse or ubuntu. But as I say ubuntu seems to loosing the plot. The sata transfer issue is a major pain. I know I don't move files around that often but I don't want to wait 20 mins or more to move a couple of gig files around my hdd's.  Also for a hugely popular distro it still lacks an awfull lot of polish. Currently the 64 bit version of ubuntu is flawed and for me un-usable.

It's time for 64 bit operating systems to become the norm. (yes, i do need a 64 bit os)  And currently opensuse has by far the best 64 bit os.

I keep hearing good things about 11.2 testing.  Wish I had a place to test it out.  Not sure I want to trust it for daily use on my laptop while still in beta.

I had thought that 64 bit would have taken over completely by now but that has not been the case. I started using SuSE Linux as a 64 system back at 10.0 and have simply accepted it as the Standard. That was almost 4 years ago.

I understand that Widows is contemplating 128 bit compatibility for MS-8 and beyond. Have not seen any 128 bit CPUs yet but I expect they are coming soon. Should be interesting firing up the 80 core, 5 TB Ram to run Frozen Bubble. Bet it flies.

Trust M$ to think they can implement a system that would be pretty pointless for the average home user. 64 bit is pretty much as big as needed for anyone.  64 bit systems have been about for a while and yet knowone seems to push it like it should be. Maybe they would do better making their 64 bit os standard before thinking that big.  I'm not sure I need 16.8 million terabytes of ram just yet! (128-bit processors would allow memory addressing for 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 bytes (~340.3 undecillion bytes or 281,474,976,710,656 yobibytes  - or in english far too much!)

@bdquick - I wouldn't recommend anyone to use a beta for day to day use, although 11.2-M8 is good enough to do just that. Although in a month we'll have the full release.

@mattb4 as for 128 bit cpu's - I'll sure M$ can find a way too tell us we really need to get one so viruses run better!

Well m$ is starting to push the 64 bit operating system more.  Windows Server 2008R2 is 64 bit only, and for any pc to Windows 7 certified it has to be a 64 bit processor.  They will still be releasing Win7 as 32 or 64 bit though.