What would be the best Linux-based OS for a person who's never used Linux before?
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Anonymous2006-04-10 23:09
Ubuntu.
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Anonymous2006-04-10 23:12
Live CDs
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Anonymous2006-04-11 1:52
ubuntu
in before anti-ubuntu flamers
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Anonymous2006-04-12 3:05
>>3
live cds are good
they give you a chance to experience different distros without doing anything to your computer
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Anonymous2006-04-12 8:37 (sage)
Debian
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Anonymous2006-04-29 18:25
more
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Anonymous2006-04-29 18:34
I'm pretty happy with Gentoo. Regardless of what they say, it IS faster, and you can always leave your computer compiling whatever you want at night. Since you get to compile everything, it's safer and more customized to your liking and needs.
But you really aren't compiling anything, you are typing emerge this and emerge that and using someone's prebuilt ebuild. It compiles, but unless yo go through the code and stuff, which I doubt you do, that is no more safe than me typing apt-get install foobar
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Anonymous2006-04-29 19:34
>>11
how can it be faster when you waste your cpu-power all the time with compiling shit? seriously.
you can change priorities but still you have io and stuff.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 21:34
yeah, live cds are good for playing around if you have no clue what unix is like.
when you want to install a distribution, ubuntu would be fine
make sure you get on irc. (come to freenode: http://freenode.net/) I can't count how many times I would have been lost if it weren't for people on irc to answer my questions.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 21:44
Yes, I use Gentoo. So? I dont see any problem. I embraced my Gentoo distro long ago and I am happy together with my workstation (that is a stage 1 box!). I have a fucking lot of ebuilds in and outside of portage and my CFLAGS are pretty optimized and solid.
But thanks anyway asshole. Go and use your stupid Debian while I EMERGE new ebuilds.
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Anonymous2006-04-30 1:20
Ubuntu. Always Ubuntu. AND you can get CDs for FREE.
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Anonymous2006-04-30 5:38
>>12 >>13
Well, at least I got two replies, but I was expecting more VROOOM VROOOM and CFLAGS JUST KICKED IN, YO! posts :(
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Anonymous2006-04-30 7:47
>>17
Gentoo isn't universal enough. The whole point of the wide array of Linux distros is that knowing one has you know them all, while providing you a different experience. Would there be so many distros if they all had totally different structures? Who would bother to learn some small one?
Another is that SuSE appears to be extremely hack resistant. Most things would refuse to compile, and I managed to make it unbootable trying to install dependencies for vmware. Have now switched to Vector, for great slackware based justice.
I'd still recommend SuSE for n00bs though, decent desktop.
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Anonymous2006-05-01 15:23
nUbuntu is pretty good. Prepackaged with a full sysadmin's toolkit and Firefox.
Another is that SuSE appears to be extremely hack resistant. Most things would refuse to compile
Signed. I use a SuSE-based box at work and I fucking hate it for exactly this reason. Every compile results in a long list of "lol no libs u fag".
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Anonymous2006-05-01 20:17
>>28
GCC says "lol no libs u fag"? That part must've been written by RMS.
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Anonymous2006-05-01 23:06
Unbutu or Fedora core
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Anonymous2006-05-02 0:57
Slackware. It's reputably stable, it's put together in a very matter-of-fact approach, and it isn't as difficult to use as people who whine about text editors say it is. I learned Linux on Slackware back in 1994 when I was a highschool freshman, and I still use Slackware to this day.
"When you know Red Hat, all you know is Red Hat. When you know Slackware, you know Linux."
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Anonymous2006-05-02 1:04
>>19
I said the same thing years ago, but it actually is pretty descent nowadays
It's sole and only purpose certainly isn't just to show of you Epenis anymore
That said, I'd sure as hell never run it on anything critical
Debian FTW btw
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Anonymous2006-05-02 1:06
>>29
if I designed an operating system, all the error messages would be derogitory like this
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Anonymous2006-05-02 3:57
It's the year of Desktop Linux 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 ad nauseam.
>>34
I use Linux as my main desktop, since gnome and kde matured five years ago it's been an ok one. Of course, I still have xp on vmware for the occasional windows app I need to run.