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Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro?
An anonymous reader writes "I'm a very new user to Linux looking for a distro that allows me to control and customize, but I'm not sure where to start. I had a friend install Ubuntu 12.04 on my computer, with the E17 window manager and somehow I managed to crash it during the copying of some non-important files and now my computer won't boot (the hardware's fine though). I've found descriptions of Arch Linux to be spot on to what I'm looking for and want (Slashdot user serviscope_minor mentioned Arch a couple weeks ago and it caught my attention), but my experience in the terminal is literally about an hour. That said, I really want to learn more, don't mind hard work, enjoy challenges, and am perfectly willing to spend hours and hours for months on end to learn command line. Any suggestions, projects to start with, books to read, or tutorials to do to try would be appreciated."
somehow I managed to crash it during the copying of some non-important files and now my computer won't boot
Many Slashdot users, serviscope_minor in particular, have told me that Linux is reliable, stable, robust, powerful, yada, yada. Nothing but good things. They said only Windows can crash. So, you must be trolling, shilling, lying, or some other form of -ing.
Windows 7, it won't crash while you are moving important files.
Ranks right up there with "I promise not to cum in your mouth" as one of the great lies of our time.