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

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."

Comments

Re:What do you run internally?

[buchner.johannes]

One of the reasons Windows is popular in companies is that people have it at home and are used to it.

So here's an idea: Use a distribution that you can recommend your people to also use at home.

Your choices are fine, why not lend people 3 DVDs and let them try out -- if they have trouble with the first, they can switch without hassle. No need to nail it down to one.