May 18, 2012
Location: Distro Results
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Happy faces indicate your likely happiness level with the specified Linux distribution. A sad face means stay away. For a much more detailed and extensive analysis, please visit the Linux Distribution Chooser.
| Distro Name | Happiness Level | Is it free? | Geared toward | Runs well on older computers |
 Zenwalk |  | Yes | Knowledgeable | Maybe |
 Vector | | Yes | Intermediate | Yes |
 Ubuntu | | Yes | Intermediate | Maybe |
 Slackware | | Yes | Guru | Yes |
 Sabayon | | Yes | Knowledgeable | Maybe |
 Fedora | | Yes | Knowledgeable | Maybe |
 Puppy | | Yes | Knowledgeable | Yes |
 PCLinuxOS | | Yes | Intermediate | Maybe |
 Mepis | | Yes | Knowledgeable | Maybe |
 Mandriva | | Yes | Intermediate | Maybe |
 Gentoo | | Yes | Guru | Yes |
 Debian | | Yes | Expert | Yes |
 ArchLinux | | Yes | Expert | Yes |
This is NOT a complete list of choices, but it does represent the majority of very popular ones. You should check out anything with three or more happy faces showing beside it. A lot of these can be downloaded easily for free from linuxiso.org!