OT - Which Linux?

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Jason House Wrote:

> Paul D. Anderson Wrote:
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> > I'm going to add Linux to my PC to get a dual-boot configuration. (I'm tired of sloooow start ups and want to tap into the great tools available.) The tutorial I'm looking at suggests Ubuntu. Is there a significant difference in Linux implementations? Is Ubuntu one of the better ones? Does it make a difference for running D2?
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> > Thanks in advance for your hellp.
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> > Paul
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> Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro at the moment. It's easy to install, keep up to date, and find help. I highly recommend it for newcomers to Linux. I have not tried the other distro's recommended in this thread but do like Ubuntu better than others I have tried. 
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Not only to newcomers, I've been using linux for at least 6 years (mostly redhat and slackware, also built a few linux from scratchs) and am now using Ubuntu on my laptop alongside win7. Not because its an easy linux distribution to work with, because its a convenient one to work with. I know I can do anything from the shell, but having a popup that says "it seems like you are missing this to execute that, would you like me to install and configure it for you while you drink your coffee?" is just plain neat.

Heck even windows isnt as neat as Ubuntu.