Linux Distro, with the following

[Dale Trombley]

For a first time user I'd say Linux Mint KDE. You get KDE just like
Kubuntu, all codecs previously installed and fully functional and is a bit
more polished.
On Jun 26, 2015 5:04 PM, "Pastor JW" <rev.olson at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 06/26/2015 05:15 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>
>> On 06/26/2015 02:41 AM, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>>
>>> El 26/06/15 a les 08:27, Georgi Kourtev ha escrit:
>>>
>>>  I would strongly recommend Kubuntu.  I moved from Windows to Kubuntu
>>>> back in
>>>> 2008 and it was so much intuitive and easy to use so now almost all of
>>>> my PC
>>>> (incl my office) run on it.  Nice graphics, not resource consuming,
>>>> very secure
>>>> and excellent for network jobs. It has all needed applications you can
>>>> need.
>>>>
>>>> Kubuntu has matured a lot in recent years and these days practically
>>>> you do
>>>> not need to go the the average user scary terminal to do tings -- all is
>>>> pretty much graphical.  Try and I am sure you would never look back to
>>>> Windows.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe that's true for previous versions.
>>> 15.05 comes with a kde version that's, to say it in a nice way, "highly
>>> experimental" (which is an euphemism to say that almost nothing works as it
>>> should).
>>> Give mageia a try, version 5 is just out and it's quite nice.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>>
>>
>> Being a relative newcomer to Linux, about 2000/2001, I tend to stick with
>> the LTS versions, 14.04 is the latest. LTS versions are supported for five
>> years but, I think, new LTS versions come out about every two years so next
>> April should see the next LTS release. The LTS releases, as a general rule,
>> are the most stable and bug free.
>>
>>  I agree LTS versions are the way to go if you are wanting a stable
> working version as opposed to experimentation type version.  I need a solid
> working version for what I do and not  a "bleeding edge" one.  KDE is the
> best of them except when a brand new very buggy KDE version was included in
> a Ubuntu LTS distro.  A bad move by the LTS guys who seem to think only the
> Gnome version matters.  However, when Gnome updated they had the very same
> problems as they had with KDE a few years earlier. Really, LTS versions
> should never come out with unproven GUI overlays.  KDE works much better
> than Gnome on hardware that is not the new latest and greatest every year.
>
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