The *nix cat fight thread. No, I really just want opinions ;-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Colani1200 wrote:
Time to say goodbye to Suse anyway (see here). :angry:

Ubuntu is a nice distro indeed. Genereally, I'd prefer FreeBSD, but I have to admit that it is not that noob friendly and requires rather a lot of work to set up a nice desktop machine. With Ubuntu, it's just a matter of 3-4 clicks.

I think the only noob friendly way is Slackware (+ a big Linux book).
Because it forces you to learn the setup of Linux.
If things go wrong at least you can find out yourself. Else you have to be lucky to find a topic on the net wich is about your problem. And you'll probably spend too much time on repairing your problem and you'll learn not much about it.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Piru wrote:
I'm not saying Gentoo is a bad distribution, but I don't see it being somehow better than the others, at least not using your criteria. And it certainly isn't friendly for someone who wants to get something up and running fast (agreed, Debian probably isn't that either ;-)).

You should have read what he was replying to.