I use KDE personally, but having used both Gnome and Unity (Unity being a Gnome stack), it's quite intuitive to new users, and has a large community for support (I know other distros do too).
Ubuntu 12.04 is the LTS, not 12.10. Haven't tried mint :( BenDavid Aizenberg <pixelsh...@gmail.com> wrote:From personal experience, ubuntu is big pile o' crap :( Never worked good on neither of my computers. Fedora is oriented at new users too, and it comes with gnome 3 instead of that 'unity'; On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ben McRae <bmc...@me.com> wrote: For beginners, good suggestion would be Ubuntu, comes with transmission. Ben gary smith <gazwebdes...@msn.com> wrote: Iam trying to introduce my friends son linux he does a lot of downloading can anyone suggest a linux disitro that has software for p2p, torrent file downloads many thanks in advance Gary _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro -- Sincerely, David Aizenberg about.me/PixelShuck
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