What linux is for a linux newbie?

[aznmist]

What linux is for a linux newbie?
Sorry if this topic has been talked over before...I have an empty and hidden paortition waiting to be used

 

[TunaBoo]

Mandrake


from personal experience, back up rest of HD. It is easy to fobar your partitions with linux.

 

[Courtland]

Mandrake or RedHat (both the same for the most part). However, if you have no clue what you are doing, I would not bother.

 

[aznmist]

i'm going to linux because windows is too hard to use...


















just kidding.....for curiosity sakes

 

[BillMartin12]

Your right Windows is just too hard to use!! <wipes sweat off face>


...about as hard to use as the Apple OS from the 80's..haha


Bill Martin

How To Build Your Own Home PC for Under $700, Even If You're a Techno-Dummy!

 

[TunaBoo]

<< Your right Windows is just too hard to use!! <wipes sweat off face>


...about as hard to use as the Apple OS from the 80's..haha


Bill Martin

How To Build Your Own Home PC for Under $700, Even If You're a Techno-Dummy! >>




$20 for a book on how to build a computer? pee-shaw

 

[Lord Gwynz]

I heard it doesn't get any easier than SuSE linux.

 

[Flat]

SuSE is the easiest, comes with good apps etc. Mandrake is not, Red Hat eats it.

 

[pulpp]

Redhat, Mandrake and Debian are all pretty good.

 

[Schlocemus]

If you are looking for an easy distribution...use Mandrake.

However, if you really want to know the workings, then get something like Slackware. With virtually no GUIs you will learn everything you need to know about linux so that you can fix your computer when something goes wrong.

So, if you just want casual use, go with Mandrake or RedHat. If you are a power-user, go with Slackware

Just my 2 cents...