Favorite Desktop Distro for New Users - 2009

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devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Favorite Desktop Distro for New Users - 2009 This poll/thread is meant to help those users that are new to Linux and having difficulty deciding which distribution(s) they should start with. Please use it to post information about your favorite beginner oriented distro. Do not post comments saying that any particular distro is the best, because the best truly is very subjective. Note that this thread will be locked and/or deleted at the end of the year and a new thread started. The poll from last year can be found here. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

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devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Ubuntu. I prefer KDE over Gnome. Its Kubuntu to be precise. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

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mhanan Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: San Diego CA Posts: 60	Gotta go w/ openSUSE Don't have a legitimate reason to rank it above Ubuntu for newbs... driver support and documentation are near equal... just comes down to personal taste I guess.

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rokytnji Linux Guru Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Pecos, Texas Posts: 1,503	Gotta go with Ubuntu as it has worked on all my hardware. __________________ Free Linux Books Linux Registered User # 475019 And I’ll keep using Linux until they pry it from my cold dead fingers.

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elija Linux Engineer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Either at home or at work or down the pub Posts: 1,094	Mint - 5 as it is an LTS. Mint: Ubuntu made easy Second choice would be Ubuntu __________________ "I complement you - your facility of understatement is exceeded only by your mastery of silence, but measuring this with the word 'shame' surpasses all your previous achievements in articulation" The Fifth Continent

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jayd512 Linux Guru Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Posts: 1,595	I guess it sort of depends what the new user wants out of it. I know the common consensus usually goes to *buntu or its derivatives, but I think Fedora still gives a good mix of 'ease of use' and 'you gotta learn some things'. __________________ Jay Forum Rules Registered Linux User #463940 Not every story has an ending... but they all have more chapters.

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SkittleLinux18 Linux User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Mesa, AZ Posts: 262	PCLinuxOS is not the most stable on the list, but it is the distro I recommend to all new users. __________________ Using Linux since June 2007 Distros: (k)ubuntu 8.04 KDE 3 Edition SPECS: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2 GB DDR2, GeForce 6100 When your whole life is on one computer, servers and all, choose stability over anything else.

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Surak Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 32	im actually saying knoppix, because its so easy just to "get up and go" with it, i mean if it got me started it can get anyone started.

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dandart Content Team Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: South West England Posts: 85	Xenon OS FTW

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Originally Posted by Surak

im actually saying knoppix, because its so easy just to "get up and go" with it, i mean if it got me started it can get anyone started.

Amen.....I think Knoppix is the greatest thing since sliced bread was invented. Knoppix just works, for the most part and you don't need to install it to the hard drive to get a good grasp of what Linux is all about, but it does have it's downside like all distro's.

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