Ask HN: What's your linux distro?

archlinux. It forces you to learn more indepth about how linux and operating systems work. For most mac-like, go for ubuntu

EvolutionOS: everything works AND it looks good doing it. If you're coming from MacOS X, you'll feel right at home; there's apparently significant Apple talent contributing to it, and many of the design features are inspired by OS X.

Are you going to be using your Apple hardware? I've had little success getting most Linux distros to function well on my MacBook, although I've heard Fedora 20 works quite well [1].

[1] http://mattoncloud.org/2013/07/18/fedora-19-on-a-macbook-air...

Currently using Arch and loving it. My Linux distro progression has been Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Debian -> Crunchbang -> Arch.

I highly recommend starting with either Ubuntu or Crunchbang and then moving to Arch. Using Arch will force you to learn much more about Linux and will make you appreciate many of the things that you take for granted.

Unless you have some reason not to you should just run Ubuntu. It's by far the most popular desktop Linux distribution, which tends to make your life easier. I've been using Linux as my desktop for 15+ years, so I've run lots of distros, but I'm using a stock Ubuntu 13 on my machines. It works, gets out of my way, and let's me get work done.