Comment Ideal, it depends on the experience of the user (Score 1) 486
I myself prefer Slackware as a Linux, but for inexperienced users I installed both Ubuntu and Red Hat Fedora Core.
Out of the box both of these systems work fairly well, maybe Ubuntu works even more easy considering dependencies and already default (out of the box) known software repositories.
It's really about those software repositories. In-experienced users (or users who don't want to be bothered with repositories) want to have those repositories setup for them and just point-and-click the software they want to use.
My girlfriend (inexperienced with Unix/Linux, but experienced with office applications) now users OSX, but also Ubuntu worked quite well for her.
Out of the box both of these systems work fairly well, maybe Ubuntu works even more easy considering dependencies and already default (out of the box) known software repositories.
It's really about those software repositories. In-experienced users (or users who don't want to be bothered with repositories) want to have those repositories setup for them and just point-and-click the software they want to use.
My girlfriend (inexperienced with Unix/Linux, but experienced with office applications) now users OSX, but also Ubuntu worked quite well for her.
