Best Linux Distro for beginner

[RevPokemon]

I saw it a few posts up and have heard about it before somewhere.
Shame that Canonical have decided to go the corporate-Microsoft-style route to make money when open source/libre should be non-profit.

IIRC that is only on main Unity Ubuntu. MATE for example did not have that spyware.

ok... but whats the difference, from Xubuntu and Ubuntu?

The GUI. Xubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu with a different GUI as is Lubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME

 

[Touko White]

Also they're intended for different purposes and might have other optimisations to help older computers or such or provide a more modern interface.

 

[astronautlevel]

IIRC that is only on main Unity Ubuntu. MATE for example did not have that spyware.

Yeah, which is why I recommend the ubuntu derivatives rather than ubuntu itself.

 

[RevPokemon]

Also they're intended for different purposes and might have other optimisations to help older computers or such or provide a more modern interface.

Mainly this. They just have different design goals

Yeah, which is why I recommend the ubuntu derivatives rather than ubuntu itself.

Same here. IMHO MATE is probably the best if you are coming from Windows as the two are fairly similar to me.

 

[astronautlevel]

Same here. IMHO MATE is probably the best if you are coming from Windows as the two are fairly similar to me.

I like MATE, but I use XFCE on pretty much every box, which is why I recommend Xubuntu

It's also fairly similar to windows, and I feel is visually nicer than MATE.

 

[Touko White]

I've used Xubuntu on Mac before it really drained my battery on the system for some reason.

 

[astronautlevel]

I've used Xubuntu on Mac before it really drained my battery on the system for some reason.

Probably weirdness with the Mac hardware, Iunno. I've never tried putting Linux on Mac before, so

 

[Touko White]

Probably weirdness with the Mac hardware, Iunno. I've never tried putting Linux on Mac before, so

Yeah, I'd guess that too. Probably cripples the hardware for non OS X lol