Which Linux is best

paradisiac

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ok, so looking for the best/easiest linux distro for each of the following :

Office/Internet -
MediaPlayer -
MediaServer -
FileServer -

from my recent playing around, for the Office/Internet one i think mandriva is pretty good, until i had issues last night and today, but then i have had similar issues with windows so im sure its just one of those things. any suggestions would be welcome.
 
Could you define 'best' and 'easiest'? Because I could answer with my distribution of choice for all of those and many people might disagree! :p
 
JHeaton said:
Could you define 'best' and 'easiest'? Because I could answer with my distribution of choice for all of those and many people might disagree! :p
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mainly something that pretty much works out of the box without a lot of configuring. for someone that is not used to linux and konsoles.

i dont expect there to be one answer for them, just ideas and i can try them out, but no point me trying out loads that just arent designed for the jobs or are not that user friendly, so just really want an idea and i can go from there.
 
pingwing said:
Mint is probably the best start to have everything from the off
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so...

Office/Internet - Mandriva/Mint
MediaPlayer -
MediaServer -
FileServer -

i tried mint before mandriva, cant remember now why i decided to give up and move to mandriva now, think it was down to the default theme looked dated.
 
paradisiac said:
mainly something that pretty much works out of the box without a lot of configuring. for someone that is not used to linux and konsoles.

i dont expect there to be one answer for them, just ideas and i can try them out, but no point me trying out loads that just arent designed for the jobs or are not that user friendly, so just really want an idea and i can go from there.
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In that case, I'd have to say Mint for them all. :)

But Arch is better... :p
 
Should do, ran okay on my Atom D510. Might want to try the XFCE, LXDE or Fluxbox versions though as they take up less in terms of resources than GNOME and KDE do.
 
Office/Internet - Any of the big ones - Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE etc. Well maybe not Fedora for total newbs.

MediaPlayer - Do you really want a dedicated distro for this? Install XBMC on any of them and it will do all you want. Failing that, Mythbuntu maybe.

MediaServer/FileServer - For any kind of dedicated server you want something rock-solid. In other words, Debian, which also happens to be the best distro anyway. ;)

The thing to remember about Linux though, is that there's barely anything exclusive to a distro. You can install Gnome on OpenSUSE for example, a distro traditionally used by KDE lovers. You can put XBMC or MythTV on any distro and make them dedicated media players. There are some distros that arguably make certain activities easier, but in my opinion it's far more useful to just use a distro you're comfortable with.
 
paradisiac said:
ok kool. so briefly whats the difference between mint 11 RC(i assume this is beta for the new version), Xfce, LXDE, KDE, Debian?
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Mint 11 is based on Ubuntu 11 (albeit without Unity or Gnome 3). The newest release.
Debian is just Mint based on Debian. More stable at the expense of older software and slightly worse hardware support.
Xfce, LXDE, KDE are just Mint 10 with different window managers. Xfce and LXDE are lightweight, KDE less so. Gnome is somewhere in between Xfce and KDE to give you an idea.
 
Huw said:
Office/Internet - Any of the big ones - Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE etc. Well maybe not Fedora for total newbs.

MediaPlayer - Do you really want a dedicated distro for this? Install XBMC on any of them and it will do all you want. Failing that, Mythbuntu maybe.

MediaServer/FileServer - For any kind of dedicated server you want something rock-solid. In other words, Debian, which also happens to be the best distro anyway. ;)

The thing to remember about Linux though, is that there's barely anything exclusive to a distro. You can install Gnome on OpenSUSE for example, a distro traditionally used by KDE lovers. You can put XBMC or MythTV on any distro and make them dedicated media players. There are some distros that arguably make certain activities easier, but in my opinion it's far more useful to just use a distro you're comfortable with.
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im thinking to use on systems with those specific needs. if someone just wants something for watching films on, then something that isnt very resource hungry would be better than a distro with addition software if you know what i mean.
 
russ0r said:
Mint 11 is based on Ubuntu 11 (albeit without Unity or Gnome 3). The newest release.
Debian is just Mint based on Debian. More stable at the expense of older software and slightly worse hardware support.
Xfce, LXDE, KDE are just Mint 10 with different window managers. Xfce and LXDE are lightweight, KDE less so. Gnome is somewhere in between Xfce and KDE to give you an idea.
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so they all do the same thing, just some versions have services/packages not installed from disc to make them better for netbooks etc, like windows ce is a cutdown version of windows?
so debian and kde use different ways of installing packages so not everything is available on both?

overall are the konsole commands universal accross all linux systems or does that vary too?
 
paradisiac said:
so they all do the same thing, just some versions have services/packages not installed from disc to make them better for netbooks etc, like windows ce is a cutdown version of windows?
so debian and kde use different ways of installing packages so not everything is available on both?

overall are the konsole commands universal accross all linux systems or does that vary too?
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Yes, they all do the same thing. Some versions have different services/packages installed and are set-up slightly differently to make them more lightweight, or more stable, etc.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear was I :o

Console commands are pretty much universal across all Linux systems. What varies is the method for installing packages.
 
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