Re: What's the best easy to use Linux OS?

J.O. Aho said something like a ...

When it comes to "easy to use", it's quite the same for most distros,
try to avoid meta-distros like Gentoo and Arch Linux, as those requiers
you to compile everything.

Oh come now - compile everything ? Yes, in a matter of speaking you are
correct, but one doesn't actually have to do:

# ./configure
# make
# make install

Just do, for example,

emerge gnome

and walk away and wait for the system to compile - and, yes, herein is the
rub of which I think you speak... the damned waiting for the compile to
finish. Partly why I stopped using Gentoo is that an update to OpenOffice
required a new compile of MANY hours.

Yet, I agree Gentoo is NOT for newbies.

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