What is the best (easiest to use) Linux OS?
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 at
06:48
I would like to try Linux and need some idea which distribution is the easiest to use.
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A lot of people like ubuntu, lindows is supposed to be like windows to use, knoppix as a live CD is great to use but is slightly slower and of couse your CD drive is tied up running it. Red hat or Fedora core is very popular in America, not keen on it myself, Mandriva is easy to use but is supposed to be a bit buggy, my favourite is Suse, it’s very easy to use (I don’t even use windows) and has excellent documentation. You don’t need to go into the command line at all with a modern Linux distro unless it’s to do a job that’s easier from a terminal.
Read and compare all about Linux distributions here->> http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/
Than choose what you feel fits more on what you want.
It is easier but not that easy you need to know commands and that how it operates
That’s an opinion question, it’s really up to you.
Try http://distrowatch.com
for a listing.
Try http://www.knoppix.net/
You can download it and place it on a cd and boot from the CD to run it.
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.
What software is installed on the KNOPPIX-CD?
The following Highlights are available in this Debian-based (www.debian.org) CD:
Linux-Kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x
KDE as the standard desktop with K Office and the Konqueror WWW-browser konqueror
X Multimedia System (xmms) an MPEG-video, MP3, Ogg Vorbis Audio player and xine
Internet connection software kppp,pppoeconf (DSL) and isdn-config
Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
utilities for data recovery and system repairs, even for other operating systems
network and security analysis tools for network administrators
OpenOffice(TM), the GPL-developed version of the well-known StarOffice(TM) office suite
many programming languages, development tools (including kdevelop) and libraries for developers
in total more than 900 installed software packages with over 2000 executable user programs, utilities, and games
By my experience, Suse and Mandriva are the easiest to use linux, though ,at any rate tougher than Wndows. You can also try Ubuntu, FC5 etc. which are also reasonably easy to use.