Which linux distro for new user?

[D-Dan]

Linux Mint - always works first time for me, unlike even Win 7 which is resolutely refusing to run a program that I installed for the first time today. No error, no momentary process and then quit. Just nothing.

Emailed the author - wonder if I'll even get a response. If it was a Linux program half the community would be working on a fix by now.

Steve

[davej99]

Went with Mint in the end. Out of the tin it is amazingly user friendly. Frankly as a Windows user since version 1, 1989 I think, I was not expecting too much for free. and I am way down on the learning curve. But don't you just love a command line again; the best since Desmond (DOS 6.22, sorry). Less really is more. The best speeches, the best theories, the best codes, are always minimalist. Churchill once apologised at the end of a letter to his father for its length, and wrote that had he given it more thought, it would have been far shorter. Billy Goats eat your heart out.

[mrapoc]

I too am about to try linuxmint

I usually put ubuntu on my sister's laptop.

It was always quite impressive for something free, but felt a bit sluggish yes, i totally agree that the setting up of codecs always used to pisch me off 

[vitriol]

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on a 2Ghz Core2Duo with 2GB Ram and a X1250 Radeon mobility chip and it blitzes Vista easily, much ,much faster.  And thats with a fully loaded compiz cube desktop with lots of eye candy running.

As far as codecs go.........one of the first things that I install is Ubuntu restricted extras.  That normally sorts out most codec problems.  Then again when I do come across a video file that wont play ball, Ubuntu just goes off and finds what it needs, installs it and then plays the file.

My printer was picked up automatically, I plugged it in and a little notification popped on screen to tell me that my Epson R300 was ready to use....classy.

I've been using Linux exclusively for around 9 months now.............and do not miss Windows at all.

[mrapoc]

Trying linuxmint now

Basically ubuntu without the codecs and other setup issues


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