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2008-04-20 , 18:55
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
A good place to be bewildered by choice is

DistroWatch.

The overall most trouble-free Linux out of the box, for me, has been Linux Mint.

I have had mixed results with OpenSuse lately.
I second that Linux Mint is a great choice. It is based on Ubuntu, so you get the stable version without the ugly orange and brown. (Instead you get ugly green!)

The ubuntu.org forums are a great place to learn how to fix what you willl break. Kubuntu is not as easy to learn, and my experience was 60-75% of the apps I used were Gnome instead of KDE. I had 4.0 running on a clean install and I uninstalled KDE and tweaked Gnome. With Compiz.

I disagree that anyone new to Linux should install a recently released distro of Ubuntu. When released, they are barely stable.

FWIW, I am in my 4th year of Ubuntu only. I started out 10 yrs ago with RH 5.0 and then Mandriva (then called Mandrake) and debian apt-get in synaptic is waaaaaaaaaaaay easier than RPM was with disk drake.