[ILUG] Favourite flavours

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Timothy Murphy (tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie):

> I've always found your advice useful, and have invariably agreed with
> it if it came within my experience - but your list of recommended
> distributions is bizarre in the extreme.

<grin>  Well, as I said, choice of distribution inevitably turns out to
be A Religious Question.  (And thank you, by the way.)

For whatever it's worth:  The ones I listed all have large crowds of
devotees among novice desktop users, and are considered the primary
choices among distributions specifically aimed at that market.  I have
personal experience with all of them to some degree.

> The most important question for a newbie is: If I have a problem, will
> I find someone running the same system as me, preferably on the same
> machine?

I've often advised people to strongly consider whatever distribution
they can get the -=most effective local help with=-.  But that is not to
be confused with "system used by the greatest number of people".  In
particular:

> For that reason alone, Fedora and Debian are the obvious choices.

Given your starting premise, logic would actually have suggested that
you were recommending MS-Windows.  ;->

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