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H_TeXMeX_H:
Long ago I recommended DSL to a newbie, maybe this was not such a good idea. But the problem is I don't know what might be too difficult a Linux distro for newbie. So, I'd like a short list of distros that would be optimal for newbie, ones that aren't likely to scare people off or leave the with the wrong impression, you know.

So instead or DSL, feather linux seems to be a lot better live CD for newbie. Try to put ones that you have used, rather than just heard about. You can also put ones you have tried but did not like or that are not for newbie, along with the reason.

This is now a dynamic list ... I'll add to it as suggestions come in ... assuming that's ok with everyone.

Worth a try

live CD only
Feather
Knoppix
Accelerated Knoppix

live CD + possible HDD install
Mandriva One
Ubuntu
PCLinuxOS (never heard of it, but looks decent ... right ?)
Mepis

HDD only
Fedora (in case Debian won't recognize your HDD)

Don't try these

live CD
Linspire (it's complete bullshit, no modem detection, slow, annoying startup music like Window$)

You can try these, but you may encounter problems

live CD
Move (Mandriva live CD, it failed to boot)
Gnoppix (slower than a turtle in a tar pit + annoying startup music like Window$)

HDD only
Suse (failed to detect HDD)

 Honorable mention, but not for newbies
DSL (Damn Small and Fast Linux)

Aloone_Jonez:
Out of the ones you've suggested I've only tried Knoppix which was great and Fedora which was bloated and slow.

Can you easilly install Knoppix and Feather to your hard disk?

What would be nice is to have a Live CD with an install feature and a good non-fuckupable package system with a large repository.

H_TeXMeX_H:
Ok, I'm looking for a new distro for myself ... it seems FC just won't cooperate with me :( ... it really does suck after all.

Trying Debian ... hope it's good.

piratePenguin:
Mandriva.

I got a completely-free version of Mandrive One on a DVD free with "Linux Magazine" a few days ago (the magazine probably wasn't allowd distribute the non-free parts).

It's a livecd, with a program to install it to your harddrive. Boots to KDE after a few questions. Made me feel a bit nostalgic (Mandrake Move was the first GNU/Linux distribution I ever used, and it kicked ass (even though it ran from CD)).

Seems very cool. Everything I expected to work, worked without my input. It was slow as fuck though, running from DVD. I was tempted to install it, but finding it a partition for it would be problematic.

It and Ubuntu seem pretty easy to me.

The Mandriva Control Center is very fucking cool.

Refalm:
Ubuntu.
They even have a modified Synaptic that will let you choose applications really easy. And the fact that my Logitech gamepad was detected properly (which I had to do manually on some other distributions) was impressive as well.

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