Re: Good distro for windows users

SuSE. With KDE ofcourse.

On 5/6/05, Jacob Gemmell <evilbob333@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would look at Mepis (http://mepis.org/). I haven't used it in a
> while, but when I used it last, I was really impressed on how easy it
> was to install and use. Its debian based, so apt-get is there. It also
> uses synaptic for package management, so users don't have to get into
> the command line if the really don't want to. It seemed to be a good
> distro for beginners.
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> Another debian-based distro to look at woud be Ubuntu
> (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/). They just made a recent release. The
> nice thing is they will ship you CDs for free. And they have broader
> platform support than Mepis, incuding the all important amd64.
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> Both these distro, put a heavy emphasis on easy of use, and making
> applications easy to find.
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> Of course, all that being said, I still keep going back to Gentoo. I
> just can't give up my portage.
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> Anthony Valentine wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I am building a computer for a couple of friends and they want to try
> > Linux. I have been using Gentoo exclusivly for years now so I do not
> > have any experiance with any other recent distros.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a good distro for a Windows user to switch to? It
> > isn't necassary for it to be free, as they are willing to pay for it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help!
> >
> >
> > Anthony Valentine
> >
> >
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