Re: linux for beginners

johnny bobby bee wrote:

I probably shouldn't bother, but I am curious. What the hell is really the difference between Ubuntu and Fedora with Gnome? To a newbie, they'd appear to look and work almost exactly the same.

Desktop-wise, there shouldn't be much difference, but AFAIK the various configuration files are slightly different and I would also expect any Graphical UI to them to be different, too.
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