Personally, I prefer FreeBSD to everything else. Mainly for the ports system. No hunting for things you want to install, and it's not a pain to install things (my advice is avoid gentoo if you're new to the world).
But then, I've used FreeBSD as a server too, with no monitor plugged in & just SSH connection across to it.
I've also had wonderful experiences where I NEEDED to get a remote system working, with X (graphical interface instead of just command line), so had to configure X to broadcast across the net via VNC etc. Never pretty when you get to that level of stuff, but for most things, you're laughing.
In the past, I've used SuSE (early version, took me 3weeks to install it properly with - at the time - XFree86, no documentation, no experience of Linux, lots of determination). Mandrake, Gentoo, Fedora Core 3, 4 & 5, Red Hat, Debian, Unbuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, PicoBSD... you name it, I've probably had it installed at some time.
Now I'm paid to maintain Windows 2003 Server and IIS (which should be named POS). How ironic huh?
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