Favorite Desktop Distro for New Users - 2009

[lielaisKK]

Ubuntu for now, but willing to try Debian, because it is more stable and, as I red, better than its fork Ubuntu

[Freston]

I voted Slackware. I mean, somebody had to

Slackware isn't for everybody, it's the kind of distro that for some is perfect. For the right kind of user, it's not too difficult to get up and running.

One might say a fresh Slackware install is just barely bootable. It doesn't do anything yet. It boots into a textual login, and the only account on the system is the root account. Login, and then the blinking cursor indicates the system is ready to take your orders.

What happens then is up to you. You want a desktop? A multi-media center? A mail/ file/ ftp/ webserver? A router/ firewall/ dhcp server? A system that can be as lean or as bloated as you can imagine, headless or stand-alone and always completely and fully yours to imagine, design, set up, configure, test and run.

It'll cost you hours, days, weeks, months and you may never finish everything. But you can trust you have a system that is reliable, clean, logically designed and lets you, the user, decide what it's purpose in life will be.

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As I said, it's not for everyone but I felt it deserved to be mentioned
I'll be in my dark basement

[rokytnji]

I voted Slackware. I mean, somebody had to.
I'll be in my dark basement

I liked that one.

[stef4001]

its based on ubuntu 8.10 but i love it i also used mint,mandriva,PClinuxOS,even FREEBSD and i think the ultimate is the best good work from those people,

keep up the good work

[Lakshmipathi]

Ubuntu.
I prefer KDE over Gnome. Its Kubuntu to be precise.

Hi Devils Casper ..I never tried Kubuntu ..but worked with ubuntu...recently
I came across Mandriva 2009. It's really good. My vote goes for it

[sachin.parnami]

Loved Fedora as well but Ubuntu is much better then it so ....

[MikeTbob]

Loved Fedora as well but Ubuntu is much better then it so ....

HEH, trying to start a Distro flame war??
I have never really used Ubuntu for an extended amount of time, I guess I just didn't like it that much, but it is a very fine distro for most new users. However, I feel that there are other distros that are now better suited for new users and I will be recommending those from now on.

[geese]

I have tried Ubuntu, fedora, mandriva and quite a few others. But my main distro is opensuse.

[Cogitati]

My recommendation is Mint, because generally new Linux users don't want to have to do much, and want a more familiar interface. Lots of computer users, I notice, don't even know what a "CODEC" is, and just want a computer that will play all their music and be able to use all their favorite IM protocols. As people become more advanced users of Linux, then they may move onto more specialized distros (or may not).

It all depends on the user, if they were proficient with Windows/Mac/whatever-they-came-from, then they will probably become proficient with Linux, and then move onto something more specialized (like Debian for their home server). And on the other hand, if they weren't very proficient with their previous OS, then they will probably be perfectly content with Mint.

- my $0.02

[sachin.parnami]

HEH, trying to start a Distro flame war??
I have never really used Ubuntu for an extended amount of time, I guess I just didn't like it that much, but it is a very fine distro for most new users. However, I feel that there are other distros that are now better suited for new users and I will be recommending those from now on.

He he he nothing as such Mike was just sharing my experience being novice i found its better to use first time users who jumt from Windows to Linux world