More n00b Linux questions.

[SemajObmij]

Hi Everyone,

I know that there are a bunch of threads out there asking "What distro?" so I'll try to make this specific.

As an introduction, I just graduated College with my BA in English, and a little tech knowledge that I've gleaned from being a PC user for 14 some-odd years and a part-time job slogging it in my school's IT Hub as a computer consultant (sounds flashy, but it wasn't).

After getting out I got a job doing IT work with a small Boston-based company. Fortunately, they all use Macs so my job is pretty simple on that front. Unfortunately, their servers run on three different distros of Linux and I'm realizing very quickly that I'll need to get up to speed ASAP.

That being said, I am planning on installing openSUSE on one of my computers at home to play with and learn from (we use SUSE Server at work). However, I also want to install a distro on my laptop.

I need speed and the ability to use my laptop as a portable jukebox/movie player/document editor/general use machine. For this I'm torn between Mint and Xubuntu (Or another Ubuntu distro).

Is one better or easier to use than the other? I've read that Mint comes pre-loaded with media codecs. Is that where I should be looking to get into Linux? I'd love to have the system be stable, but I also want to LEARN something and hopefully get into the more robust versions of Linux.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Right now I'm leaning towards Mint, but who knows.

Thanks,

--James

[elija]

Personally I love LinuxMint. But ti depends what you want to do. For example if you want to learn about their servers you will need to run those distos

[SemajObmij]

Off course!

I was hoping to just get familiar with SUSE and then get some on-the-job experience.

It also doesn't hurt that openSUSE comes with high praise.

Thanks for the input.

--James

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Hope you have fun here and enjoy running Linux.