It all depends what you are looking for really. First you need to figure out if you want to use Gnome or KDE as desktop environment.

Many users is using Gnome as their desktop envionment, so lets say that´s the one you want to use.

Now we need to think about using 32 or 64bit Linux system, you probably want to use 32bit for the first time to be sure everything works. But you also want 64bit available too.

Now we need to think about how your system should be updated/upgraded. Some Linux distributions have upgrades every 6/8 or 9 months, some using rolling updates and be upgraded as soon there is a new stable version of something.

As regular usage of the computer, you probably want to use latest stable versions of everything. Instead of getting few hundreds updates every 6-9 months. (can also be a pain if something breaks during the update) And maybe you don´t got a great internet speed, and want to save some bandwith too. Fedora, Ubuntu or Opensuse uses 6-8 months upgrades and even installs back the default applications you uninstalled. That is something i don´t want to happen in my dist i use.

And offcourse you want to be able to rollback the system if something should break. Like go back in time to a point where the computer worked just fine.

So this is want we want:

• Gnome
• 32 or 64bit system
• Rolling updates
• Rollback feature

So lets go to Distrowatch to see which Linux dists that have these features.

Foresight

Pardus (KDE as default, but can install gnome afterwards)

These two distros was the only i could find that have rolling updates and rollback feature.

But iv´e managed to find some distributions that have atleast Rolling updates, but no rollback feature.

Arch

PCLinuxos

Debian Testing

+ There is a few more distros that manage it, but either they don´t have Gnome or 64bit system as we also wanted.

So in overall, there was only 2 dists that i really wanted to use. But looks like Foresight has better documentation available and main language for the dist is English. For Pardus it is Turkish.

So thats why i use Foresight and probably many other users too. Its all under the hood where Foresight is so bloody great.