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by AB-Joel on July 3rd, 2003

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Which version of Linux is most friendly for first-time users?

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  • by DOSJockey382 on July 22nd, 2003

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    For users who are relatively inexperienced with computers in general and just want a working system that does not make you work too hard, I suggest either Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) or Lindows (www.lindows.com). Most Linux distributions nowadays have fairly easy, straight forward installation procedures, but the real problems arise when it comes to software installation and accessing that software after you have installed it. If you are not careful, the installation process will dump a bunch of stuff on your system that you will never use or need, or you will know the program is there but don't know how to use it or even know what it does because many of these programs are not mainstream or commercial programs. Lindows and Gentoo give you easier access to mainstream and commercial programs that have been written for Linux, and their package management systems (especially Lindows) are relatively easy to use. Other operating systems, like Windows or MacOS, have only one system to manage your installed software. Linux has about a half dozen ways to manage programs, picking a management method that you can handle is very important, especially for inexperienced users.

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    • Gentoo requires manual installation & compiling from source code.

      Pokemaster303

      by Pokemaster303 on May 24th, 2005

    • Lindows is the worst linux.

      saratchandra

      by saratchandra on April 4th, 2006

    • Gentoo DOES require installation from scratch, but there are stage3/stage4 installations which are a little bit easier, but still no for newbies.

      Try Sabayon if you want Gentoo based: www.lxnaydesign.net

      Lindows, lindows doesn't exist anymore, it's linspire for a while now, and linspire is based on debian, perhaps this is an OS for newbies.

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on December 8th, 2006

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