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B-Con

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 554

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Re: Good newb distro

Ubuntu/Mint or FC. Ubuntu is where I got my start, I left after I felt like I wanted a more "user-submissive" OS.

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coarseSand

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 203

Re: Good newb distro

Linux Mint is good except for the horrendous menu they wrote, it would crash on me daily and caused huge memory leaks. Even in its normal state I think it took at least 12mb of ram, which is completely unacceptable.

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JawsThemeSwimming428

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From: USA

Registered: 2008-03-09

Posts: 149

Re: Good newb distro

I used Ubuntu when I was starting out and it was ok. However, I wish I would have known about Mepis. Best out of the box distro for newb's!

ph0tios

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 126

Re: Good newb distro

If he's not going to run Arch, then he should run Ubuntu.  If he needs to play a lot of multimedia files, then he should run Mint (which is Ubuntu plus codecs).

I second Mint...One of my friends who is an experienced linux user, and has an intimate(and sometimes scary) love for debian usually recommends Mint to people who want something out of the box with codecs, etc preinstalled.

psych1610

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From: Florida

Registered: 2008-03-28

Posts: 15

Re: Good newb distro

I went for Linux Mint before Ubuntu and it just wasn't working out for me as much as I wanted it to. The menu would always freeze after using apt-get or synaptic. I'd have to log back out and then in and sometimes then I'd get a black screen. It couldn't configure my display right and after numerous times of fiddling I had to dump it. Ubuntu did everything great except for the touchpad which I managed to get under control. While I still am not the biggest fan of it I'd have to pick Ubuntu over Mint anyday. Heck, the codecs really are just a few clicks away and there's more than enough documentation to get them.

If not Ubuntu then PCLOS all the way!!!

Dave

alcafar

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From: Italy

Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 47

Re: Good newb distro

Before Arch I used Fedora, Suse, Kubuntu and PC Linux OS.
For a newbie, I strongly suggest PCLOS over (K)ubuntu, then Suse and finally Fedora.

moose jaw

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From: Milwaukee

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 104

Re: Good newb distro

I'll put in another good word for Mepis.  I'd say it's the best option for a newbie-friendly KDE distro (much nicer than Kubuntu).  Good multimedia and hardware support, plus with version 7.0 it's now switched back to Debian (from Ubuntu) for its underlying base and packages, which is a good thing.  Best of all, it's got an excellent and very helpful user forum called mepislovers.org.  In terms of stability, community, and overall goodness of the user experience, I'd say it's the Arch of newbie distros (if that makes any sense... what I mean is, they're both at the top of their respective categories)

raymano

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Registered: 2006-10-13

Posts: 357

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Re: Good newb distro

FaunOS is the Arch of newbie distros. FaunOS is both non-techie end-user friendly and it is Arch.

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moose jaw

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From: Milwaukee

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 104

Re: Good newb distro

FaunOS is the Arch of newbie distros. FaunOS is both non-techie end-user friendly and it is Arch.

Oops! Well, strike what I said about Mepis as the newbie-Arch. Still an excellent distro, though.  Now I guess I should really check out FaunOS!

cardinals_fan

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 248

Re: Good newb distro

Another vote for Mepis.

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