Favorite Desktop Distro for New Users

04-19-2007	#1 (permalink)
ozar Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 12,051	Favorite Desktop Distro for New Users 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, but don't 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. __________________ oz New Members: * README *

04-19-2007	#2 (permalink)
daacosta Linux Newbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Medellín, Colombia Posts: 197	Well, I had very good luck with both Ubuntu and Xandros when I started using Linux regularly on an old Compaq 5000. Nowadays I would recommend Knoppix as it is a live distro that doesn't commit the new user to it but allows him/her to experiment. __________________ -D- Registered User # 402675

04-19-2007	#3 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Ubuntu. i prefer K Desktop Environment so its KUbuntu. SLAX. a LiveCD, doesn't has install option, works pretty fine in almost all machines and has all audio/video codecs. __________________ 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

04-19-2007	#4 (permalink)
Ozzi Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Iasi, Romania Posts: 48	xxx Well, I voted for Ubuntu, but I'm not sure if it's the best system for all new users, since everyithing usualy works out of the box and you don't need to learn much more in order to use it. I sarted out with Fedora and I belive it is a better experience for those who want to learn, since it has a few bugs to get comfy with

04-19-2007	#5 (permalink)
tech_man Linux User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: USA Posts: 385	Gentoo. Just kidding, Ubuntu has my vote. __________________ 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.' --Abraham Lincoln

04-19-2007

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Originally Posted by tech_man

Gentoo. Just kidding, Ubuntu has my vote.

I voted openSUSE, but I'd really recommend SLED - Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop.

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04-20-2007	#7 (permalink)
tommytabib Linux Newbie Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 127	I voted ubuntu because its so incredibly easy for anyone to use. __________________ It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire

04-20-2007	#8 (permalink)
ozar Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 12,051	voted openSUSE... I voted openSUSE, but most all the distros listed are pretty much new user friendly except for Slackware and some new users even find it easy. __________________ oz New Members: * README *

04-20-2007	#9 (permalink)
bidi Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: The Hot Humid South Posts: 602	Debian all the way! I've used Ubuntu but eventually came back to Debian. Debian's Testing branch is just as stable, if not more, and will always be up-to-date since changes are always being added to it. When I upgraded from Ubuntu 6.04 to 6.10 a few months ago (when 6.10 came out) it somehow screwed with the partitions on my drive, this is really unacceptable. I've also used Mandriva, Mepis and Ark Linux, but Mepis is just a LiveCD and appearantly I can't deal with RPM (Mandriva and Ark). __________________ "Today you are freer than ever to do what you want, provided you can pay for it!" --Bad Religion

04-20-2007	#10 (permalink)
tvilkov Linux Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Moscow Posts: 136	As a newbie I started out with Fedora Core 6, and I think it's excellent. It has all the tools I've needed, and support is brilliant. The other Week tried Debian Etch, which, to my suprise, worked flawlesly on my laptop, detecting my hardware perfectly, and working great. __________________ Gentoo 2.6.24 amd64 AMD Anthlon 64 X2, 2 GB RAM, Asus M2N-MX, nVidia GeForce 9600GT 512Mb, 250Gb + 160Gb HDDs