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Any linux distro suggestions?

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I have been wanting to try linux for a while, but I have been overwhelmed by all of the distros. Any suggestions for distros and desktop enviroments?

 

 

Also, stupid question. Can I partition an NTFS drive to work with linux or does it have to be a different drive. (Can one drive have two file systems?)

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I have been wanting to try linux for a while, but I have been overwhelmed by all of the distros. Any suggestions for distros and desktop enviroments?

 

 

Also, stupid question. Can I partition an NTFS drive to work with linux or does it have to be a different drive. (Can one drive have two file systems?)

Ubuntu, and yes(you just have to resize the partition before installing the next OS)

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GENTOO

 

OR 

 

CENTOS

 

OR

 

FEDORA

 

KDE is best

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I wouldn't recommend any of those.

 

Ubuntu is easy. Linux Mint is easy.

 

Linux Mint DE is my favorite.

I hate ubuntu with a passion.

 

Mint is okay but for a first time user Fedora is very good

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Linux Mint if you want to have an easy start. Its desktop environment (Cinnamon) is similar to Windows.

Also Ubuntu. If you want to go more on the server side of things or in general more stable and secure systems I'd suggest Debian ( :wub: ) and CentOS.

Dont try SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) though - it's garbage if you dont want to invest money into updates and actually get along with YaST.

In general I can recommend desktops like Gnome, xfce or Cinnamon - even Unity (Ubuntu). What I can't recommend is stuff like KDE (e.g. openSUSE) - confusing the shit out of it's user..

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So, I have decided on Gnome for the deskop, and AMD decided Ubuntu for it's graphics driver. The rest are server OS's on the driver page.Thanks for the suggestions, though. Have a nice day. :)

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