Five mistakes GNU/Linux neophytes make (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 1, 2005 1:22 UTC (Thu) by njhurst (guest, #6022)
Parent article: Five mistakes GNU/Linux neophytes make (Linux.com)

I think any article which talks about newbie friendly, then leaves ubuntu off the list is probably not worth the electrons it is printed on. All my linux newbie friends have done the distro shuffle, and without exception, they have all migrated to ubuntu, or rarely debian.

Five mistakes GNU/Linux neophytes make (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 1, 2005 18:04 UTC (Thu) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link] (1 responses)

I think any article which talks about newbie friendly, then leaves ubuntu off the list is probably not worth the electrons it is printed on.

Very true. I've used all of the distributions in the article's short-list at one time and while they are all viable options, none competes with Ubuntu on n00b-appeal.

I've been installing Ubuntu on my relative's computers ever since I laid out my no-more-windows ultamatum to them. So far, it's gone over extremely well.

Five mistakes GNU/Linux neophytes make (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 6, 2005 0:09 UTC (Tue) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]

Hehe, I have Ubuntu running on an original iMac for our housemate, and she thinks it's running MacOS :)