Which Linux?

[XEN]

I am gonna download linux and load it onto my second HD. I was wondering if anyone could point me to a good distribution. I need one that can do all the basic stuff Windows does but also has a nice GUI. If anyone could help that would be great!

 

[Ð88]

Ubuntu is a good one. It uses gnome as a GUI and is fairly user friendly.

 

[Brian_Fenner]

Linux Mepis.............

http://www.mepis.com/

 

[Bahawolf1]

I second the notion for Ubuntu. You can also try KUbuntu if you wanted, which uses KDE making it similiar to Windows.

 

[burton_o61]

The ONLY one i have used is suse...It also uses gnome as the gui.

 

[joxley1990]

SUSE is ace, but ubuntu is ace for beginners. Start with a live version to get used to it, thats what I did anyway.

 

[kyleman999]

lol i use SuSe, i find it a little complicated to get going, since i'm not unix inclined

 

[^Mike^]

Ubuntu is a very nice distro, also you can consider Fedora Core 5 which came out a few weeks ago.

 

[Half Evil]

Mandrake

 

[Trivium Nate]

Knoppix ive used it and its ok