[lug] Linux for New User (Desktop OS)

[Dan Ferris]

Here's my shout out for Kubuntu.  I've been using it exclusively now for 
almost 6 months and it's pretty great.  The upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 
was flawless (something that's never happened to me before).

KDE will feel the most familiar to you if you are used to Windows, but 
you can customize it easily to be exactly how you like.

I usually recommend to people that they avoid Unity.  Unity is the 
WIndows 8 of the Linux world.

Dan
>
> On 05/23/2014 10:15 AM, Tom Martin wrote:
>> I was just wondering which Linux you all would recommend for a newbie 
>> user (read Windows convert)?
>> I have narrow it down to one of the following....
>> 1) Mint 16 (I know 17 just came out)
>> 2) Ubuntu
>> 3) openSUSE
>> 4) Debian (or is this server mainly)
>> BTW these are not the order I am looking at but Mint is the one I am 
>> leaning towards
>>
>> Thank you
>> Tom
>>
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