On Sunday 05 March 2006 18:32, Chad Martin wrote:
> Tony wrote:
> > Hello all I am asking for everyone's opinion on which linux is best,
> > easiest and the least issues for an old windows user wanting to
> > convert. I had RH9 and had alot of issues and hear alot of talk about
> > Mandrake and Suse mainly. Any opinion on why and why not which is best
> > would be greatly appreciated to help me make up my mind on which I
> > should install on my system.
>
> Heh. Are you trying to start a flame war?
>
> I don't mind Fedora Core, but that's the newest Redhat, so if you didn't
> like that, you might want to stay away.
>
> I've also heard good things about SuSE and Mandrake (Mandriva?). I
> personally use Gentoo, but I wouldn't call it newbie-friendly. It takes
> some effort and a pretty precise adherance to documentation to install
> and run correctly.
>
>I use Mandriva on one machine and suse on another they both work very well.
Mandriva detects the video card on installaton and install the nvidia drivers
where as Suse you must do your updates with Yast to get your 3d drivers to
work which is also very easy to do.Everything else is very easy on both
systems so they are about the same in my books and worth checking out.
Gary
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