“I’m getting into Linux!” Cantun Martin says, I was wondering what's the best Distro to get? Chat room, you want to take it? Well, I guess it was down again. Okay, I’ll back up to the last question, it really depends on what you want to do. It really depends on what you want to do because the question that you’re asking is basically the only answer to that is opinion. Everybody’s opinion is going to be different because everybody is user experience and everybody is user expectations and what they need from there operating system is different. so what I need from my operating system is different than what John Robert or Vie both means. So in that respect they may try different operating systems that I may not use. Hey, Jameson is a good examples of somebody who you know while we can agree on many things about Linux he’s definitely interested in fedora.
But for me it’s not something that interests me. So not there’s you know it’s a matter of opinion again. So don’t’ send emails about that statement that I made jut there. For me, it’s definitely Ubuntu, that’s me. The chat room has lot of opinions for you so I’d welcome you to, if you’re not live with us tonight join the website categoryfive.tv check out the IRC logs for episode number 95 but again it really depends on what you want to do. If you’re brand new to Linux here’s the way I look at it and again it kind of, it kind of echoes the things I was saying with the first question about programming.\
If you’re brand new to Linux and you’re used to Windows, I think the best step for you to take is to try to find a Linux distribution that’s going to make that learning curve as subtle as possible. So for me, when I first started, when I moved from Windows to Linux, my starting place and this is not an option anymore because they’re gone, but was Lindos because Lindos was trying to be the Windows of Linux. They were trying to make something that have that Windows feel to it. So I think that it might be—if that’s you, if you’re the person who’s trying to find a Linux alternative to windows, something that you feel comfortable with then you probably want to look at something that has been—that that’s been there focus. Ubuntu there focus is to be a really strong community-driven Linux operating system but where they stand with other operating systems is not what ‘s there driving factor.
You get distributions such as probably Zandro’s that have had consistently a real pushed towards Linux and Windows compatibility and things like that. Now, speaking on how they make because I was going to mention on some PCLinuxOS, the KDE version of PCLinuxOS is a good one to start with I’m sure. So you know it really depends but look for opinions and find out you know and ask honest people what they think of, here’s my needs, here’s what I want to do and this is you know what would be the best option for me. But if two things are true, I think one is you want to ease that learning curve, make it so as easy as possible for you depending on your user, the level of experience that you have and how willing you are to get frustrated with the little odd thing.
But definitely something is going to ease that curve and also you want to find something that’s going to work well on your hardware. That’s very important because the user experience is going to be affected by poor performance or a poor support for your hardware. So I want to see one that is going to work really well for you. Well we set a few things. Hopefully that will give you a little bit of the starting place and again read the chart notes, irclogs@categoryfive.tv for episode number 95.
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