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I'm considering installing Linux on my home PC, which is essentially my wife's PC. She really only uses for Web Browsing, Email (via a Web Interface), for our family photos (Picasa is what she currently uses). If I were to get her on the Linux Bandwagon, what distribution do you recommend? We have Athlon Dual Core machine with 6 gigs of RAM and a 500 MB hard drive. I'm currently leaning towards the following:
I've heard StudioUbuntu is good as well which may be the logical course based on her current use.
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With your bias towards ubuntu and all that RAM, a desktop environment is of little concern to you, it would seem. As such, I would start with Mint and peppermint then, if one would like to broaden his horizons gradually, go with a Debian-based distro like MEPIS. Next mini-step would warrant delving into binary-only Debian like sidux.
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Out of those two picked by you, I would recommend Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Fedora gives you a bit of a headache until you make it usable(drivers, codecs, etc) but after that it's quite nice and it works great. Ubuntu is much more stable and faster, and besides that, it is much easier to install drivers(nvidia, wireless) java JRE runtime or SDK adobe flash player and reader.
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Agreed. I'm also biased I admit, to the Debian-derivatives than I am to Red Hat and it's derivatives. I know it;s all Linux underneath the hood, but Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS are great, but just not for those new to Linux.
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Studio is good, but not ideal for this particular case. Linux Mint is the way to go.
In the end, decided to go with Linux Mint.