walt on 13 Jan 2005 23:11:09 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Noob linux user wannabe who wants to know WHERE to be


On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 14:51 -0800, The Dark One wrote:
> Ok everyone, I know that you've probably heard this
> question a million times from a million different
> people so please forgive me for being #1,000,0001. I'm
> a resident windows user who is seriously ready to
> switch things up and jump ship to linux. Now, for the
> research i've done so far, the consensus on the best
> distro's for newbies who really want to learn the OS
> like me are debian, mandrake, and suse. So, if anyone
> could offer some extra advice on exactly which "ship"
> I should jump to here, or what the majority distro
> used here in philly is so i'll have some people to
> talk to about it, i'd really appreciate it. Later days
> :) 
> 


You may want to try Ubuntu from http://Ubuntulinux.org it is debian
based by user friendly a great first distro.

Walt

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