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I tried a liveCD of Knoppix and found it very user friendly. I would suggest this before doing any install. As an install, I would go a different route.

I bought a Dell with Windoze XP Pro, from a bankrupt company, and deleted it. I installed Fedora Core 5 and in my opinion it sucked! I had tried a VM of Debian, on the doze XP box using Parallels, and thought, although long to install, by far it was the best of all. I deleted Fedora and installed Debian. It isn't the most user friendly os, but I enjoy a challenge.

My main os is Mac OS X and I use an NXClient to remotely dial into the Debian box. The only thing that I haven't been able to get working is sound. According to nomachine.com, there is no support for sound between mac and linux. I'd be happy to help you with Debian if you'd like. Just send me a PM.

Once again, I must toss my hat in for Ubuntu. It is truly the nicest, cleanest, easiest Linux *ever* made in my opinion. You are only huting yourself by not trying it.

I know Suse and Mandriva. With Suse I had some troubles becouse of ISP, and drivers especially with modem and later with router. On Mandriva all was and is working perfect, and this is great thing for begginers.
About Ubuntu i don't know but maybe I will download and test it, if U tell where
is secure link to get it from.
Suse was open source, so no problem to get it, with Mandriva Free edition (2007) is nice, but to many programs is missed. About 1500 is not in version.
Powerpack have them. Already I am downloading 2007 PP Mandriva and soon I will test it.
Linux is good, it's basic and good to know which distros are better than others. Let me know what U think. Thx

my first real distro was suse which was very user freindly. it was easy to install and it had most of what i wanted. i got it free out of a linux mag which probably helped cos it was aimed at begginners and had all the help i needed. if you looking for something with tonnes of support on the web id go for ubuntu tho

I'll tell you what I did before installing linux for the first time.

I ran an Ubuntu live cd, that a friend gave me, to get taste how it would look like and so.
Finally after some time, I decided to install it.

It was with the 5.03 version, and it was kinda, not hard, but for sure you gotta be kinda documented about it. I finished having linux along windows, I setted up a partition with partition magic.

But hey, the brand new versions of Ubuntu are soo friendly user, and you'll be surprised about it. I recommend it to everyone who tries to get to know linux, it's beautifull, and it's as easy, and probably more easy than installing windows.

Good luck.

http://www.ubuntu.com/