Best Linux OS for a newbie?

[pohlmeyr]

I am wanting to put a Linux ops as a second operating system on my computer and am wanting to know which is the easiest to deal with for a newbie to linux.

Thanks
-keith

[trey85stang]

Mandrake/Mandriva is an easy to get going distro.

[pohlmeyr]

if you had to pick one which would it be? I have used mandrake before and thought itwas hard getting all the drivers to to work. Would i have this same problem with Mandriva? ALso this was about 3yrs ago that i tried to mess with it. I know windows really well , but am looking to broaden my horizons with linux.

-keith

[trey85stang]

[QUOTE=pohlmeyr]if you had to pick one which would it be? I have used mandrake before and thought itwas hard getting all the drivers to to work. Would i have this same problem with Mandriva? ALso this was about 3yrs ago that i tried to mess with it. I know windows really well , but am looking to broaden my horizons with linux.

-keith[/QUOTE]


mandrake is now mandriva, they are the same. :) a lot has changed with linux and mandrake in the last 3 years. I bet all your stuff would work with no problems now.

[Stang2be]

ubuntu seemed pretty linux newbie friendly

[sonic03gt]

I'd recommend Mandrake and/or Suse.

[pohlmeyr]

i just figured out that Mandriva is mandrake. Thanks
-keith

[Sgt Beavis]

Get a MANs Linux distro.

Get Slackware ;)


Seriously, Mandriva/Lycoris is probably the most user friendly.

[trey85stang]

[QUOTE=Sgt Beavis]Get a MANs Linux distro.

Get Slackware ;)


Seriously, Mandriva/Lycoris is probably the most user friendly.[/QUOTE]

Yup, Sgt Beavis is correct, Slackware is a man's distro :cool:

[Tiny Tim]

Windows > Linux

:D

[Sgt Beavis]

[QUOTE=Tiny Tim]Windows > Linux

:D[/QUOTE]

Depends on what you are doing with it.

I used to work for Microsoft but I still like Fedora.

[Tiny Tim]

[QUOTE=Sgt Beavis]Depends on what you are doing with it.

I used to work for Microsoft but I still like Fedora.[/QUOTE]

True. I was just makin trouble.

[Neiladin]

i like suse alot, although i havent tried any of the others, lol. suse seemed rather user friendly. everyone thinks linux is all h4x0r friendly and newbs cant do it, when in actuality all it takes is a little trial/error.

[Sgt Beavis]

[QUOTE=Neiladin]i like suse alot, although i havent tried any of the others, lol. suse seemed rather user friendly. everyone thinks linux is all h4x0r friendly and newbs cant do it, when in actuality all it takes is a little trial/error.[/QUOTE]

Suse ain't bad at all. But it is goddamn latin compared to Lycoris ;)

[Stang2be]

Don't hold out on em. Gentoo is the ultimate noob distro :)

[DarkWolf]

[QUOTE=Stang2be]Don't hold out on em. Gentoo is the ultimate noob distro :)[/QUOTE]

Well, technically you could qualify noob, and distinguish between a Linux noob (but fairly competent with computers), and a computer noob (and thus also a Linux noob).

I hopped on Gentoo after 3 days trying out Fedora Core 3, which was the first time I'd used Linux since Red Hat 3 :) Was able to figure out most everything (never did quite get the scanner going though), either through google, or asking questions here. In which case, Gentoo might actually make a good noob distro :D

[DarkWolf]

As of right now, I can't recommend Ubuntu enough. I've only been using it a few hours, but it ... just works.

[Tex89]

How about Linspire 5.0?

http://www.linspire.com/

[DarkWolf]

I'd stay away from Linspire. But that's a personal choice. Linspire certainly seems to be the easiest Linux though, as they've made it as "Windows" like as it can be.

[chris]

Suse 10.0

[trey85stang]

[QUOTE=DarkWolf]As of right now, I can't recommend Ubuntu enough. I've only been using it a few hours, but it ... just works.[/QUOTE]

Good to hear that!

[1990mustangGT]

I would definately recomend gentoo. Although having to compile everything from source can be time consuming. I have tried many distros(mandrake, debian, slackware, redhat) and gentoo by far has been the best that I have found. My next choice would be Debian

-1990mustangGT-

[DarkWolf]

So I plugged my Dell DJ in. No joy. I know Ubuntu's got built in support for the iPod, so I figured there had to be a way to get my DJ working as well.

Did a quick google search, and found out I needed Gnomad2 and libnjb. Fired up Synaptic and 5 minutes later I'm happily browsing my DJ and editing a new playlist :)

Ah so many ties to Windows are being shed daily :)