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Calum:
i just thought i would mention that i thought mepis stank, not trying to pick a fight but somebody said it was great for a newbie, i think that's entirely incorrect. all i am saying is that taking recommendations is fine, but you will want to try some out before you make any serious decision, because it really is all a matter of opinion. if there isn't an answer now to "what's the best distro" then there never will be.

H_TeXMeX_H:

--- Quote from: Van Slanzar de Fanel ---As a linux newbie myself (dispite many years of trying to learn it), I am interested to find out what your recommendations would be for a good distro to use. Unfortunately, as a PC gamer, I'm stuck using windows, except for a few games that come out for linux, and I'm not planning on bying a Mac anytime soo. Personally, as I want to be using it somewhat regularly, I am only interested in installable distros and not live CDs, though they have their uses (I almost exclusively use linux fdisk when I have to muck around with HD partitions now). One major concern I have is while graphical tools are all well and good, I want to be able to really learn the ins and outs of linux, editing confs and rcs by hand and whatnot. So if you experts have any recommendations where I could go to start learning this, that would be great.
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I suppose you could try slackware, I wouldn't say it's for newbies ... but it's not that hard if you read the manuals

Calum:
actually it's not a good distro for a windoid, but that's not the same thing as a newbie, though nowadays it is harder and harder to find a linux newbie who isn't a windows veteran, impatient for a system that does everything windows should but without any of the bugs, hassle or expense (and then they complain when they don't get exactly what they want, but that's another story).

what i'm saying is that slackware is actually one of the easiest linuces to use (and administer) so long as you don't come at it from a windows perspective.

ReggieMicheals:
Well, if you want to learn how to use something you might as well pick something easy to install and difficult to use when you've used windows for a long time - that was the only way I could learn and appreciate *nix. FreeBSD will give you quite a taste of setting up UNIX, using the command line, and vi. Just print off the docs or have a spare windows machine handy with the online documentation on it so you know what you're doing. Then, when you've setup the system with a graphical environment, you can use Wine to run many of your PC games. I think they got things like WoW and Half-Life running on it. Check out the Wine app database to see what people have tested to run properly.

Calum:
that's good advice for somebody who has the patience, but most people don't. it's really whether we are talking about a "most people" newbie or an enthusiastic newbie that's at issue here.

one of my friends quoted to me once (i don't know the original author): "linux is only free if your time is worthless", and there's a lot of truth in that, but my response of course (after careful consideration) is: "windows isn't free, even if your time is worthless".

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