[AhrenBa]

Ok, I am using Nero, so that should be easy. Thank you for all of your help. I now have a much better understanding of Knoppix and Linux! Thanks!

[cbradio30]

I have a computer and I've ran Knoppix 3.9 and Mandrake 10.2 or Mandriva Limited Edition2005. There the greatest operating systems ever in the Linux world!

[Ciberblade]

Right now....Ubuntu tops my list

[c_geek]

This is really all about preference... don't listen to what other people tell you on what distribution to choose... if you can't discover this for yourself then you shouldn't be using Linux...
Linux isn't particularly n00b friendly in the first place, don't complain when you discover that installing programs requires intermediate knowledge of the command line, there isn't any "installshield" for Linux.

[prunejuice]

Originally Posted by c_geek

... if you can't discover this for yourself then you shouldn't be using Linux...

Great attitude.

[BMoCore]

You can try Knoppix which is a boot up linux distro so you never have to install and configure everything.

I would suggest Red Hat Linux Fedora Core 2 as a noob distro. Easy to set up and use.

[saikee]

I tried not to interfere with this thread but feel silly not to.

I have 95 Linux distros installed allong side 2 BSD, 3 Dos and 3 Windows in the same box. Every distro being mentioned so far is in my Grub boot menu.

I still say it is horses for courses. If one isn't sure of how good a distro is just install it into the hard drive and see it for yourself!

If you can boot two systems the same knowledge will enable you to boot 100 systems. The 95 distros have an average installed footprint of 2.24 Gb and I house them typically in a 5Gb partition each with one swap common to all of them.

There are different installers with different level of friendliness to the user but the current generation of distros has advanced considerably. Users having difficulties with installers must be talking experience 12 or 18 months ago.

[Headrush]

If you are new to Linux, PCLinuxOS is hands above others including Ubuntu. The nice thing about this distro is that includes binary drivers for ATI and NVidia videos cards built in.

It is extremely polished and has many great features. Check it out at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html