Good Beginner Distros (Was: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat)

Paul Osunero esiex3 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 00:51:36 UTC 2007


PCLinuxOS is actually a pretty good distro, but I'd wait until they make the
next version final.

And, in response to the title (why microsoft and not Red Hat), most people
don't know about Red Hat.  Besides, Red Hat's kinda expensive (>$100), even
if they do give you support.

On 4/17/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kelly wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:45 pm Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> My personal feelings are that FC would be a poor choice for your
> >> average home user, especially one that is migrating from an older
> >> version of Windows. (98)
> >
> > Okay, seriously then, what distro would be a good choice for the average
> home
> > user?  I'm trying to answer that question myself, while searching for
> good
> > distros for my younger brothers to run; they both have some computer
> > experience, but only with Windows, and I have a personal thing against
> > Debian-based distros after the time that three different Debian/Ubuntu
> > installs failed in the same way within a week.  Any suggestions?
>
> Ubuntu is really making an effort, so I wouldn't hold earlier failure
> against them.  The 7.04 desktop release sounds promising if you aren't
> tied to RedHat-style administration:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntudesktop704
>
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