Which distro is easiest to use?

[ShawnD1]

I want to toy around with Linux but I don't want to have to spend days at a time dicking around with stuff trying to get it to work. Which distro will be the easiest to use and have the best RPM support for programs?

[S.D.Willie]

easiest? mandrake then redhat

both are easy but drake has some better tools but thats just my opinion. drake is great to start out with.

Disk Images

redhat has good support for rpms as well so take your pick

[Mike]

Anoter vote for Drake and Redhat. Right now I am keeping it simple (well somewhat simple. ) with Drake.
I want to learn a few things here or there and then install debian.

[Urban_Squrill]

I started foolishly with debian with out a GUI. BAD IDEA.

Then I got drake form crouse(yet another name buchered) drake rules.

[Telexen]

SuSE (sue-suh)

I've found Mandrake to be nothing but an annoyance.

[ChrisK2972]

I am in Mandrake right now. Set it up last night for the first time. Before then, I have only played around with the "Live" cd versions of Debian (Knoppix) and Slackware.

Drake was very easy to install. A bit slow to install, I think, but easy nonetheless. (and I say slow compared to a W2K setup) I would definitely recommend it! Very easy to navigate around; although, I really have not tried to do anything yet.

If you just want to play with it, get the live version of slack and give it a try.

ChrisK

[ShawnD1]

I tried to install slack before, it said it couldn't find the hard drive .

I'll try mandrake then .

[ChrisK2972]

I do not think that you will be disappointed with it. However, with the slack live version, you don't even need a hardrive. I used it to give my boy's an internet conection when I didn't have a hardrive for their machine.

Hope you have as good an experience with it as I am having.

[ShawnD1]

That is so cool. You can actually skimp out and the kids still get internet, good for you man

[SKYLINEGTR33MWJ]

slower than a W2K setup........ ?????? i think not.... ur talking to a guy who must have installed W2K Thousands of times.... and by the way.... my Mandrake 9.1 system installed in a lil over 12minz. and One time.... with out some of the pakages, it was 7mins.... its either my system, or that linux installes faster than windows

and i installed redhat 9 on this very same machine..... and that took 17 to 21minz, I have no idea WHY