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on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:30PM
from the no-need-to-join-the-microsoft-collective dept.
from the no-need-to-join-the-microsoft-collective dept.
resignator writes:
"'Arm yourself with the information needed before telling someone to install such and such distro because it's great,' warned blogger Ken Starks in his recent FOSS Force post. 'It might be great for you, but maybe not so much with my hardware choices.'
What considerations do SoylentNews readers have when recommending an OS? What OS do you recommend the most or least? How far would you go to 'tailor' a Linux distro to a potential adopter before recommending something that will work out of the box but lack non-essential features?"
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(Score: 3, Informative) by solozerk on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:55PM
Same here - I recommend the Debian-based Mint to those not-so-savvy people that ask me for a good distro for beginners. Used to recommend Ubuntu, but I don't anymore since their amazon-search & gnome 3 bullshit move. It's not as polished as the best user-friendly version of Ubuntu was but it's good enough that even my girlfriend (not tech savvy at all) manages to use it without any help regularly for almost all tasks.
Personally, I use Debian - and that's what I suggest part of the same people (the tech-interest ones) look at once they've had the chance to get familiarized with the shell and Linux in general on Mint and they want to get a more "advanced" distribution.