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Originally Posted by vdbucks
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.
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I used to recommend Ubuntu but when I saw Unity on the horizon I started putting friends on Mint. I personally use Pinguy which is a modified Mint with all of the desktop tweaks already done for you. It's a great distro if you're tired of striving for desktop zen. Honestly it is exactly what I always wanted my desktop to be.
http://pinguyos.com/
My concern is that Gnome 2 development has officially stopped so it needs a good fork or we're all in for desktop hell. A lot of distros are moving to Gnome 3 and it is absolute garbage. I can't fathom why they would switch to such a stupid, inconvenient desktop environment. I might start recommending a good newbie distro like PCLinuxOS which runs KDE but it's easy to use, functional and pretty.