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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
I've turned a few friends on to Linux but I don't know what distro to recommend anymore. I'm using Gnome 2 and I like it. Gnome Shell is a disaster. Ubuntu's unity is almost as bizarre. I hate the tablet interface on the desktop paradigm. Unless there's a good fork of Gnome 2 soon I'll probably switch to XFCE. I know some people love KDE but it feels like Vista to me.
What distro have you been putting your non-geek friends on?
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I'd really have to suggest Linux Mint 11 for the new to average user... or Linux Mint Debian for those who are a little more adventurous.
LM 11 is based off of Ubuntu 11.04, but they dropped the Unity gdm crap and went with good old Gnome 2.
LMDE is based on Debian testing.. runs faster than the Ubuntu based release but is also akin to some problems here and there.
Either way you go though, Linux Mint is pretty great because of their menu structure and ease of use. I mean, at the end of the day it's just Ubuntu with Gnome 2 and a custom menu... but that ends up making it enough to make life very easy for the linux newbie.