Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Distro For Linux Lessons?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 2, 2012 @10:11AM from the throw-them-into-the-deep-end dept.

MBtronics writes "I work at an embedded hardware/software company and we are currently moving all our products for Windows CE to Linux. Our core development team already uses their favorite distro for development, but the rest of the developers are still working on Windows. We are going to give a series of Linux lessons (from 'what is Linux' to installing, using and developing) for everybody in the company who is interested (including non-developers). They will be allowed to choose their own distro, but we will certainly get requests for recommendations. My question to the Slashdot crowd: what distro (and window manager) do you think is the best to teach Linux to the generic public? We are currently thinking of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mint."

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If... by AresTheImpaler · 2012-03-02 10:21 · Score: 5, Funny

If you get paid by the hour, then Gentoo is the way to go. Pro-tip: use the slowest machine.
Re:KDE by Higgins_Boson · 2012-03-02 11:16 · Score: 1, Funny

OpenSUSE has really become a terrible, bloated thing since they decided to go with The Colonel instead of a Linux Kernel.