Which Linux OS?

[LuckyTaxi]

If you're serious about learning Linux, please install something, anything and play with the CLI! Yea, GNOME and KDE looks nice, but you wont get a feel for the system until you learn how to configure the system with a basic editor. Remember the DOS days?

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: dwell
Debian

Once you apt you never go back!

Except when their latest stable release is years and years old 🙁

I loved debian, but I just had to give it up, no use in using a dead OS.

I met the creator of it, Ian Murdock, and he was basically like.. yeah there is no reason to use debian anymore (he left a while back to form progeny).

Sad to see it go, was a great distro.

 

[ghostman]

If you're not familiar with Linux, choose any of the Linux OS's that CorporateRecreation told you NOT to use. Because if you build Gentoo from scratch, you'll come out in the end with a nice Linux machine, but you would have forgotten much of the steps that got you there. If you don't know what any of the config files are called, it'll be too much memorizing all at once.

I'd recommend you use something like fedora and suse, but keep yourself mainly at the command prompt. Edit files, learn vi, awk, grep, sed, perl. That doesn't mean you don't install and use X. Without X and graphical web browsing, you'll probably get bored of your Linux machine too fast. X keeps you sane until and allows you to use Firefox to browse for online Linux help.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Kenji4861

Which Linux OS

does not compute

did you mean which linux distribution?

http://linuxiso.org/