This time around I decided to try out another distribution I'd never used before in the shape of MEPIS. I started off with simplyMEPIS 6.5 which seemed a bit dated but luckily it was pointed out to me that 7.0 is due out very soon. I noticed simplyMEPIS 7.0 AntiX had been released recently but it's a lightweight distribution for older hardware and it's probably not fair to compare that to the larger distros directly. I might look at lightweight distros in their own right in future. So in the end I decided the best thing to do was check out the latest beta of 7.0 and here's how I got on