OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Cini, Richard once stated:
> 
>             I'm thinking of ditching Windows totally on my desktop at home
> as I build my next upgraded x86-bsed PC. So, I wanted to take a poll of the
> group for a recommendation on which Linux distro to use. I downloaded Fedora
> Core, Slackware, FreeBSD, Unbuntu and Linspire. 

  Mainly desktop usage?  Server?  Both?  How much Unix do you know?  Do you
care to know?

  One thing I've found is that the distributions that come with some form of
automatic package management (like Fedora Core with yum, or Gentoo with
emerge) that unless you update every hour on the hour, you will soon be
unable to update at all since older versions (where "old" is defined as
"older than three days") are no longer supported (and even then, doing it
hourly may not be frequent enough) [1].

  -spc (Who tends towards using tar balls and forgoing the whole
	package crap ... )

[1]	Hyperbole, but I have a few Gentoo servers that are now unable to
	emerge properly since they're "too old" apparently (and I only 
	emerge stuff when needed, not for gratuitous upgrading. [2]

[2]	Which slowly consumes disk space for the system as software packages
	tend to bloat, and there's always a risk of an upgrade breaking an
	existing setup.