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Distribution advice
Distribution advice
Posted Aug 31, 2005 20:20 UTC (Wed) by dark (subscriber, #8483)Parent article: Five mistakes GNU/Linux neophytes make (Linux.com)
I usually tell people to pick whatever distribution their friends use. It makes it much easier to get help when they get stuck on something. This factor far outweighs the relative ease of use of the distribution itself.
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Distribution advice
Posted Aug 31, 2005 21:33 UTC (Wed) by xtifr (subscriber, #143) [Link]
Indeed, that is the best advice, where applicable. That or ask your friends which one(s) they think you should use. I, for example, use the not-very-newbie-friendly Debian distro, but I try to get my friends to use Ubuntu or another friendlier Debian-based system--less work for me that way. :)
Distribution advice
Posted Sep 1, 2005 9:15 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]
I agree completely. However, when that friend is me (I do most major distributions, but run Debian and Gentoo myself), I have begun recommending Ubuntu. It is clearly the most no-frills, just-works, distribution right now.
The only sad thing about it is that Evolution is buggy and that I miss the desktop integration efforts from KDE (there is Kubuntu but isn't really as slick as Ubuntu). Hopefully that will be better in the future.