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[matrixweb]

what linux would you recomend for a newbie? i was thinking of linux mint, i want it to look good and be easy to use?

 

[milomak]

i suspect the overwhelming majority will be saying some ubuntu derivative.

my current favourite is the daddy debian. followed by fedora.

In essence you probably want a distro with a kernel that is either 2.6.25 or preferably 2.6.26 to give your hardware a chance of being automatically detected. And that is really the key thing.

 

[hawker]

what linux would you recomend for a newbie? i was thinking of linux mint, i want it to look good and be easy to use?

Hi, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu.
Linux Mint may be a good place to start, as whatever works for normal Ubuntu should work for Mint. Mint also has some codecs and the like preinstalled, so it is pretty much ready to go out of the box.

However, I've had a couple of issues with Linux Mint, everyone ranted and raved about how good it was. My personal experience wasn't great, and so I went back to plain old Ubuntu.

So I don't think you can go wrong with Mint or normal Ubuntu.

If you have any other questions don't be scared to ask!

 

[SYNERGY]

Fedora FTW.
ubuntu is good too

 

[milomak]

Hi, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu.

Based on Debian is what you wanted to say. Given that Ubuntu is based on Debian.

 

[ComfortablyFloyd]

Ubuntu

 

[MyWorld]

For ultimate simplicity, you will be very hard pressed to find a distro more "user friendly" (THAT word again) than PCLinuxOS.

Every time I see a new release I'm just stumped at how easy it is to operate.

 

[LFX]

i dunno if its just me but 80% of the fun in any linux distro is that its not easy and allows you to learn, i love makin things work more than being spoonfed

 

[matrixweb]

so linux mint is ok for a linux newbie?