What linux do I choose?

[juantjie]

I want to try out linux - and then keep it.

Which distro do you guys recommend I use. I'm a total noob at it.:erm:

 

[alt146]

Ubuntu is a good place to start. Make sure you have decent internet whichever distro you choose. It will work decently out the box, but you'll need a lot of googling and some apt-getting before you have an awesome box.

 

[Centaur]

I think Linux Mint is better to start with for a linux noob. As it is just like Ubuntu, but the media codecs etc. are already installed.

 

[tcpip]

I Agree with Alt146, but if you are used to Windows, give Kubuntu (KDE) a try, as it eases you into Linux by providing you wth the windows look and feel. Having said that any Linux distro supplies KDE, so the choice is yours, K/Ubuntu will make your life easy when it comes to installing updates and programmes, due to it's slick Installer.

 

[alt146]

Has Kubuntu sorted out it's KDE issues? Last time I used it, it was slightly unstable. Generally I feel that you should a system design around KDE if that's the interface you prefer, but I haven't used anything that runs KDE in years, so I'm not sure what's good.

What's nice about Ubuntu is aptitude is really simple and there is tons and tons of documentation.

 

[Tacet]

I started off with Ubuntu (Gnome). Ubuntu is very straight forward, you can't really go wrong there. After that I tried Fedora, Debian and Gentoo. Gentoo was the most involved, but once you know Linux well is quite a lot of fun to play with. But for someone new to the OS I'd suggest Ubuntu.

 

[phoneJunky]

I would go Ubuntu or Mint. Mint is nice because it basically is Ubuntu with extra stuff, but Ubuntuforums.org has a very good community to help you out if you have trouble with linux.

 

[spiderz]

Ubuntu or Edubuntu...

 

[Vegeta]

Ubuntu + download vlc once its installed every problem in the universe is then solved

 

[Vegeta]

Again Ubuntu because of the name and because of Mark Shuttleworth's involvement

 

[Moederloos]

ubuntu

 

[CallaB]

Ubuntu

 

[Lino]

Ubuntu fans, just to start out with and try. Without a doubt Linux Mint. Its ubuntu but better

 

[ponder]

Mint.

 

[kingrob]

CentOS!

Just kidding....my vote goes for Ubuntu as well. Soon you'll be able to upgrade to 10.04, which will enable you to shop online for music. Should be very very nice.

 

[Smiley_lauf]

Give MEPIS 8.x a try--it will surprise you--RC1 just released. The forum is also quite helpful.

S

 

[gentleman1]

My first linux distribution was ubuntu, then Mandrivia , then fedora, then UBUNTU. I didn't find anything to compete with ubuntu. (from my point of view)

 

[Eonblack]

Just don't use Xubuntu 9.10 it doesn't mount CD/DVD's correctly out of the box

 

[Periandros]

I think Linux Mint is better to start with for a linux noob. As it is just like Ubuntu, but the media codecs etc. are already installed.

What are media codecs? Video and Audio drivers?

 

[w1z4rd]

Rank Distribution H.P.D*
1 Ubuntu 2360
2 Fedora 1758
3 Mint 1615
4 openSUSE 1435
5 Mandriva 1203
6 Debian 1065
7 Sabayon 878
8 Puppy 840
9 Arch 830
10 PCLinuxOS 807