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i am a windows user and I have never used linux before .What do you think is the best version overall for a desktop pc ? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,thanks :) |
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If you've never tried linux before I suggest Ubuntu. thanks :) downloading now Ubuntu... there are many kinds of ubuntu right? which ubuntu? Yes you can either go for the 11.10 which is the newest version. Or you can go for the 10.04 LTS (long-term support) version where you can get more help using the system. Right now many drivers are having some trouble working on 11.10, so the most baller feature Compiz doesn't work very well. Also newbie-tip: if you want to learn linux, build your own distro.. that's the best way to get familiar with it. It's not as complex as it sounds. i installed the latest version but there was a driver problem with my g210 graphics card. Drivers is my biggest problem. I wish there's an App that could convert a Windows7 Driver to a Linux driver (since reality states that most laptops today are manufactured w/ an OEM and driver that's for Windows 7.) i just think Ubuntu is great, but it lacks marketing and stuff. :( Ummm, Yarvaxea? Yeah.. 'Building your own distro' is not a newbie tip. I would never recommend Gentoo for a newbie and building your own distro is far more complex than that. Building your own distro is for someone that installed Arch or Gentoo for the learning experience and has outgrown it. It's not for someone starting out. Everything else i agree with 100% maybe I was unclear but by 'learn linux' I meant becoming a pro with linux.. you obviously don't need to know how to build your own distro to use it lol.. but it's good to learn the ins and outs of the system. Only if the Manufactures of the laptops or desktop could port their drivers over to Linux. Then I would say yes. But I think Dell has already tried going into Linux with some of the laptop or desktops. I don't remember which one it was though. I think that some of the manufacturers don't have the time or don't want to port their drivers over to Linux cause most of the demands are within the windows Environment.
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There Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xbuntu, And there are several offshoots of it where other are trying different things. It will depend on which GUI you want to use on it. If you take a look at Distrowatch.com And look in the listing of ubuntu on the right hand side you'll see some different versions where you can go to the actual websites for them. And see which gui you like and download it from there. Personal preference I like the gnome gui. The KDE version looks similar to like the windows environment. But that is just personal taste for it. |
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yes ubuntu is awesome. there an edbuntu for students. i don't know if you are or not but its come some cool stuff on there. if you get it though you'll have to delete some stuff ha some if for like children. it comes preloaded with software to help for elementry high school college then after college learning. |
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I know Ubuntu is the most popular distro to recommend to people, but IMO I think you might look into the Mint main edition. It is still directly based off of Ubuntu, and so is compatible with all the Ubuntu repos. So in essence it is Ubuntu, but you you won't have to suffer with the early (and still rather buggy and hardware-sensitive) versions of Unity. Mint 11 still uses Gnome 2.3.2 which is much more like the Windows interface you are probably used to. That's just my 2 cents though. Ubuntu is still a fine distro to start from. :) |
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If you need to see a list of what are the popular Distro's of Linux. You can go to http://distrowatch.com/ which will have the popular 100 version of Linux. Now which one you want to use is just a matter of download it and burning it to a CD or DVD rom and try it it. :D Everyone who are using Linux has a preference to one distro over another. And none of them are bad. Just slightly different from one another. But all end up doing the same thing and that is the way you would like to us Linux on your Desktop or on your laptop. Linux = freedom! Yeah agreed. The "What is the best" Linux questions always spawn at least a dozen answers. And that's how it should be, really. Everyone supports their own preferences or recommendations and hopefully the one questioning actually starts to learn and research and try things out for themselves. Sometimes I think that the most difficult thing to get across to non-FOSS supporters is that choice is a good thing. Thats right. What might be good for one person in linux might not be for another. And beside learning how to do things and getting around of the small differences is a good thing in Linux. Even learning it under Open Solaris as well which also has its own differences as well took But thank god for the help pages in Linux as well and the forums. |
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Although Ubuntu is the most common, and Debian is the most compatible, I prefer Lubuntu, because I don't need all of the fancy desktop effects. With Lubuntu, I've made a pretty slow computer very responsive. If you don't have a recent computer, I'd suggest it, because the UI is simple, and it performs extremely fast. |
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There is no such thing as " the best Linux distro ". That is the beauty of Linux. It is different things to different people. And it is fully customizable to what you exactly want. There are many different distros each with different software and their way of doing things. There are very easy distros like Ubuntu or Mint. And there are distros that are more highly customizable, which may or may not be more difficult for you to use like Arch or Gentoo. With many more distros in between. So, you can see that there is no such answer to your question. Now if you ask me which is the easiest distribution to pick up and use, the answer in my opinion is Mint. If you ask me which distribution I like the best, it is Sabayon. Do I ever imagine that distribution ever being the most heavily used? No. But it is the one I like. And, as Linux basically gives you the freedom to make your OS your own, instead of Mac or Windows giving you what they want you to have, explore the Linux world a bit and you will find a distro that you will call yoirs. |
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Gotta agree with Alan...Mint 11 is probably the most user friendly for Windows users. |
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Ubuntu for starters. |
