I myself prefer Slackware as a Linux, but for inexperienced users I installed both Ubuntu and Red Hat Fedora Core. Out of the box both of these systems work fairly well, maybe Ubuntu works even more easy considering dependencies and already default (out of the box) known software repositories.
It's really about those software repositories. In-experienced users (or users who don't want to be bothered with repositories) want to have those repositories setup for them and just point-and-click the software they want to use.
My girlfriend (inexperienced with Unix/Linux, but experienced with office applications) now users OSX, but also Ubuntu worked quite well for her.
No fuzz, needs nothing special to run on. Just wat you need, you only want to sysadmin and when you want to test a program, why not see how you have to compile it. Then you know best what the requirements of a program are!
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I myself prefer Slackware as a Linux, but for inexperienced users I installed both Ubuntu and Red Hat Fedora Core.
Out of the box both of these systems work fairly well, maybe Ubuntu works even more easy considering dependencies and already default (out of the box) known software repositories.
It's really about those software repositories. In-experienced users (or users who don't want to be bothered with repositories) want to have those repositories setup for them and just point-and-click the software they want to use.
My girlfriend (inexperienced with Unix/Linux, but experienced with office applications) now users OSX, but also Ubuntu worked quite well for her.
No fuzz, needs nothing special to run on. Just wat you need, you only want to sysadmin and when you want to test a program, why not see how you have to compile it. Then you know best what the requirements of a program are!
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