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?"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by gringer on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:40AM
Start them off with FOSS: LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Inkscape, and GIMP. Once they are used to using FOSS, only then introduce them to a different OS. The biggest change is the software -- if you can make that change first (and gradually) while sticking with the same OS, then the transition to Linux when it happens will be much easier and more natural.