[Gllug] Linux For Beginners

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 10:42 am, Doug Winter wrote:
> More and more of my friends are finally coming round to the whole Linux
> thing.  I've been ranting at them about how Windows sucks for about a
> decade now (makes me very popular at parties), and a few of them have
> started to believe me.
>
> This means I'm getting more and more requests to help people get
> started.  Originally I recommended Debian, since I like it, however I
> think I hugely underestimated the difficulties the uninitiated would
> have with it.
>
> Well, what I really seem to have got wrong is that people won't read
> manuals.  This is immensely irritating but I can't think of a way of
> forcing people to actually do it.
>
> So, I'm looking for another distro to recommend.  This is for proper
> newbies - people who are intelligent but otherwise completely clue free,
> and generally manualaphobic obviously.
>
> I'm happy to babysit an install with them, but after that I don't want
> to have to provide telephone support for the rest of their natural lives

A quick and easy solution is Mandrake.  Many on this list would sneer at the 
notion, but it's probably the easiest install, and it finds any hardware I've 
ever thrown at it.  Mandrake is a very complete distro - pretty much 
everything you could want is included.

Chris

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