Thread: Can you recommend a Linux version for beginner
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anonymous is offline anonymous
2012-05-12 , 13:38
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Originally Posted by GrimyHR View Post
DO NOT USE WINDOWS INSTALLER! and i can not emphasize this enough, this will install linux on the same partition as windows in a virtual partition which will result in two things:
no benefit from journaled fs
and much lower performance
The topic is Linux for the beginner. Not Linux for the server / performance geek / hacker. Performance and filesystem differences are not even on this guy's radar.

edit: oops. just noticed it's a workstation with RAID. valid point

If you want to introduce someone to using Linux, the easiest and safest way is still the ubuntu windows installer.

I'm actually quite surprised you wouldn't bring up "loadfont not found". If you upgrade the distro you get your first Linux troubleshooting experience and need to edit a config file from a livecd to get into Ubuntu again.

Other than that the Installer is quite nice.
Last edited by anonymous; 2012-05-12 at 13:51. Reason: touche