Ron Blizzard wrote:
I've been generally unhappy with my CentOS desktop both at home and at work, when it comes to thinks like sound and video.
I'd recommend going with Fedora Core, to be honest. Much as I love CentOS on my servers.
I like stability over "cutting edge," so CentOS (with multimedia from RPMForge) is working fine for me on my desktop and laptop computers. I don't hate Fedora, but I don't like the constant updates. But, if I didn't have the CentOS option, I'm pretty sure Fedora would be my next choice.
Fedora has the advantage to a RHEL/CentOS user of having the same install/admin tools. But if you are turning the box over to someone else, Ubuntu makes much more of an effort to be user friendly. And they haven't been quite so bad as Fedora about refusing to admit that proprietary code exists.