Re: Best Linux distribution for home use (was: Family tech support)

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 chris () blask org wrote:

> OK, folks,
>
> You've made up my mind - my son's laptop is going linux.  He's the right
> age for it, I have the sneaking suspicion there are linux distribs that
> suck less and I'm long since tired of dicking about with his Win7 beta
> that just wants to reboot all the time.

Unfair - maybe the distribution version is a lot better than the beta?
 
> So, the question is:  what is the best linux distribution for home use?
>
> And who but this cloud of mad hatters could be better to ask?
>
> I warn you all, though.  If I take your advice and have to spend six
> hours mucking about with display drivers to make the windowing interface
> work (as I have with every linux distribution I've every loaded) I'm
> going to be spamming you all with every g-d-forsaken error message it
> throws up...
>
> -thanks (maybe) in advance,
 
I have used a lot of Red Hat (now Fedora) distros over the last 10 years, 
and I can't remember ever having to dick about with display drivers. This 
isn't like Windows. Things just work. 

And the Fedora 11 that I installed most recently, asked me two questions. 
Where are you (UK) and what sort of keyboard do you have (UK). I was quite 
annoyed that it didn't ask me about networking, until I discovered that it 
didn't ask me because it was able to workout for itself that it could see 
an ethernet interface, and a network, and what the IP address should be, 
and all the stuff like that, without having to ask me!


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