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what version of linux is the most beginner friendly?

I'm thinking of installing linux on a laptop I recently aquired but I don't have time or energy for command lines and whatnot. so what is the most "windows like" version of linux? and is there a decent photoshop type app for linux?

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From what I've been reading, Ubuntu is the most n00b-friendly valiation if Linux out there at the moment. I don't know about the status of the included documentation, but you should still give it a go. I guess it uses parts of KDE or the whole thing. Very Windows-like.

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I use ubuntu myself. It is a great distro. The only other distro I've used was Fedora Core 1 & 2. But Ubuntu is by far my favorite, and very easy to use. As I am an ultra-n00b when it comes to linux.

 

Ubuntu uses the Gnome GUI, but if you get Kubuntu it uses KDE (which I never liked)

 

Ubuntu website: http://ubuntulinux.org/

Kubuntu website: http://www.kubuntu.org/

Friendly Community Forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/

A walkthrough once you get the OS installed: http://ubuntuguide.org/

 

The only good image editor on Linux that I found to be good was GiMP: http://gimp.org/

 

Which comes with Ubuntu install disc.

 

Here is a screenshot of my Ubuntu desktop taken a few months ago using the Gnome GUI: http://dangerouscopilot.com/xfer/store/Screenshot.png

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Im liking Mandrivia. teachin myself when I have time. though I cant figure out for the life of me how to install my nvidia drivers.

 

I know with my Radeon, I had to build a kernel module the first time I got back to using Linux (Mandrake 8.1).....what a pain in the ass. It had been so long since I'd used Linux, that I couldn't remember how to do much, let alone compile a damn kernel module.

 

Using a binary or building a driver from source?

 

garageink, to actually answer your other questions. Linux isn't just all about the command-line, "streamlining" is what it's called I believe. If you don't need a GUI (Running a server etc) then why have one eating up resources? With Windows....you don't have a choice.

 

As for Photoshop, GIMP I hear is awesome. Tried it myself though and found it rather wierd, everything seems to be run from individual windows. Don't know if you can dock or combine em, but I'd assume you can.

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Im liking Mandrivia. teachin myself when I have time. though I cant figure out for the life of me how to install my nvidia drivers.

 

I know with my Radeon, I had to build a kernel module the first time I got back to using Linux (Mandrake 8.1).....what a pain in the ass. It had been so long since I'd used Linux, that I couldn't remember how to do much, let alone compile a damn kernel module.

 

Using a binary or building a driver from source?

 

garageink, to actually answer your other questions. Linux isn't just all about the command-line, "streamlining" is what it's called I believe. If you don't need a GUI (Running a server etc) then why have one eating up resources? With Windows....you don't have a choice.

 

As for Photoshop, GIMP I hear is awesome. Tried it myself though and found it rather wierd, everything seems to be run from individual windows. Don't know if you can dock or combine em, but I'd assume you can.

 

 

I think that I am building it from source. havent messed with it in like a week. I wish I could use my Raid array in linux but I cant figure out out to get that seen in Linux

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linux gave me heartburn for 3 days straight. I am over it now. I just installed winME on my old lappy.

(to weak for XP and my 98 disk has insall issues)

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