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I've pretty much restrained my pen here so far. But not any more.
I'm a firm believer that any Linux is better than no Linux.
But switching from one billionaire backed OS to another is asinine.
Sure Canonical is better than M$.
But implementation of features suggested by the user base is almost as much out of touch.
Want direct input to your OS developement? If you picked Ubuntu, sorry you're SOL. :noes:
Ubuntu has a big community
zapjb is somewhat right. Ubuntu does have a large community of followers which makes support really easy for the beginner but I personally didn't like it for several reasons. Anyways, I'd recommend SuSE. I don't care what everyone is saying about this deal with Microsoft, I still loved SuSE 10.1. PCLinuxOS looks interesting, I'd give it a shot if I was a beginner. Best thing to do is try a few distros and see which one you like the most.
I'd advise not to try SuSE. It seems easy to use at the first sight with the centralized YaST control center, but if Yast goes crazy ... it's quite an unpleasant experience to troubleshoot it. Otherwise Yast is slow and resource consuming.
Just did a update on openSUSE 10.3 yesterday and kwin just didn't load. I was like wtf, where all my windows go ...
Final word is go for Ubuntu if you are absolute new to Linux.
PCLOS is easier & faster than Ubuntu with better hardware recognition.
Check out Distrowatch if you don't know it: http://distrowatch.com/
Start with Ubuntu, and later check some others out too.
I wrote this post on Linux:
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-lin...w-users-281046
It's across quite a few PC forums, I recently updated the links on it, and they should all be working.
Ok I'm putting my foot down. All these "start with Ubuntu" posts are making me sick. :sick:
PCLinuxOS is superior in most every way to Ubuntu.
And the PCLOS forum is by far Linux n00b friendlier. :01:
OK OK don't bite my head off, start with PCLinuxOS then, hey it's #1 at distrowatch right now too.Quote:
Originally Posted by zapjb
Nice kitty, nice kitty... :O
Ok, I'll bite. In not so many words, how is PCLinuxOS superior to Ubuntu in many ways?Quote:
Originally Posted by zapjb
PCLinuxOS looks pretty good i will try it