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

Posted Sep 1, 2005 5:39 UTC (Thu) by sjdaniels (guest, #6220)
Parent article: Five mistakes GNU/Linux neophytes make (Linux.com)

The biggest problem for "Newbies" can be that there are so many distro's out there, they sometimes do not know where to begin. Also, unfortunately like assholes everybody has a distro they claim to be the best or prefer!! However, *some* (not all) people cannot put their bias aside to actually recommend what distro the newbie user would benefit from.. For window's users who migrate, you really cannot go past "Xandros' for the look and feel (familiarity), however, a majority of the stable and user-friendly distro's are based on Debian.
Really, as long as they *do* migrate, it really doesn't matter which distro they use.. As long as it does not give them a *bad* experience with using Linux.. which is the last thing we want..!!

There's my two (2) cents worth..!! Take it or leave me the change 8-)

Regards,
SJD.