Re: Best Linux

Steven H. wrote:
What is the best linux?

I'm ordering vista ultimate and using partition commander to place either a
#2or#3partion? To run inernet tv I've found a 100meg program but I have to
have linux to run it. So which one is the easiest, and best?


Easiest is the question... you can actually customize Linux to be the best system for you.

Ok... The one that "acts the most like windows".... PCLinuxOS2007
I don't mean it as an insult... I'm using it to write this now. It's cool. Of course it's my "new test system"... just 3 weeks in... KDE desktop for the most "Windows like" feel.

Ubuntu family (I suggest the "Mint" version) is easy to set up, use and automatically update. Software is easy to find and install to customize any way you want it. I use the Mint 3.0 XFCE edition. Again, it's cool. Small, fast and with the help of the easy to use package manager, just what I (or what you will) want. XFCE is a small, bare bones desktop (no frills). Ubuntu comes with the Gnome desktop by default. Kubuntu has KDE. The "look and feel" is the only real difference. You can run KDE software on Gnome or XFCE. Or you can run Gnome software on KDE or XFCE.
Xubuntu uses the XFCE desktop. I have used them all (just for fun) and they are equally efficient.

MEPIS is Debian based with KDE. I haven't tried it, but I have friends that really like it.

SuSe, Redhat (Fedora), Mandriva, etc. are big, complete with bells and whistles systems that have most software you would ever need preloaded, but they use considerable space. I don't like a lot of software I will never use loaded on the computer. That's why I use Linux instead of Windows. That's why I no longer use SuSe or RedHat / Fedora.

I have yet to use a Linux distro I didn't like. I started with Red Hat... then to SuSe, but I really like the Debian family including Ubuntu / Mint. They are small to start, but are so easy to add software to and update... you will eventually stop using Windows because, Windows will never be, just what you want.

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