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Re: ok, what is the most "newbie-friendly" version of linux these days?

  • Subject: Re: ok, what is the most "newbie-friendly" version of linux these days?
  • From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 12:43:13 -0500
On 2019-02-24 11:15, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 11:03:30AM -0500, Rob Echlin wrote:
> > The best distro for newbies is the one that comes with an expert to
> > help them out.  So, give them one that is compatible with what you use.
> 
> Best advice ever.  (Because it's exactly what I say to people!)  :-)

My family was using Ubuntu, but I've switched everyone over to fedora, which I
use on my $work laptop.  I'd agree that RHEL isn't really suitable (even though
that is on my $work workstation).  Mint seems like a reasonable suggestion,
otherwise I'd be recommending Debian if I wasn't at $work since that's what's
on all my personal machines.

> | Ian! D. Allen, BA, MMath  -  idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

	slainte mhath, RGB

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