• Most "user friendly" non-debian distro?
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I've been trying to play about with linux. Went for ubuntu to start as that seemed to have most advertisement/google showed me that first. Manged to get wireless drivers etc working which I'm happy with but wine + gmod seems to cause a lot of steam userid pending issues people have generally said to try non debian based distros as far as I can tell. Could anyone please advise me on a nice user friendly one (I don't want server software because I'm also using the PC for other stuff than servers.
Just have a little patience. There might be a Linux steam client.
Oops I meant to say gmod server, not just gmod. So the steam client won't really help unfortunately :(
I'd recommend Fedora. It's Red Hat based.
I've had a computer running Fedora [Core] since Severn 0.98. It's always been pretty polished for me, even if half of the branding was from Red Hat back then.
Mandriva (red hat based) is really user friendly, but it's also really resource heavy. There is also Sabayon (gentoo based) if you're willing to compile everything, and Fedora (also red hat based). CentOS is pretty decent too, that's red hat based as well.
I remember trying Mandriva when I was 10 or something. That shit was the bomb. Fedora is damn good these days, so just get that.
I concur, Fedora is pretty nice.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21697271]Mandriva (red hat based) is really user friendly, but it's also really resource heavy. There is also Sabayon (gentoo based) [B]if you're willing to compile everything[/B], and Fedora (also red hat based). CentOS is pretty decent too, that's red hat based as well.[/QUOTE] How exactly is compiling everything user friendly?
I dunno, perhaps the process could be automated.
[QUOTE=HubmaN;21751458]I dunno, perhaps the process could be automated.[/QUOTE] Yeah it's called using a package manager to download the binaries.
I'm not sure how that would be user friendly. I'd think of user-friendly is the least involved in the inner workings of the operating system, but that's just me. :P [editline]06:17AM[/editline] [QUOTE=turb_;21751474]Yeah it's called using a package manager to download the binaries.[/QUOTE] and this.
Fedora's good.
[QUOTE=a2h;21751380]How exactly is compiling everything user friendly?[/QUOTE] Slackware defines "user friendly" as friendly to users who know what they're doing.
To go about your actual problem, it's very unlikely that it's a problem with the distro specifically, and switching to a non-debian based one isn't going to help. I'd start by describing your actual issues so we can help.
[QUOTE=a2h;21751380]How exactly is compiling everything user friendly?[/QUOTE] It's all automated. The package manager resolves dependencies on it's own. The compiling everything part just takes forever. [editline]12:34AM[/editline] [QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;21752890]Slackware defines "user friendly" as friendly to users who know what they're doing.[/QUOTE] wonderful, but I mentioned sabayon, not slackware.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21764186]It's all automated. The package manager resolves dependencies on it's own. The compiling everything part just takes forever. [editline]12:34AM[/editline] wonderful, but I mentioned sabayon, not slackware.[/QUOTE] Actually Sabayon has binary packages for everything, if you use the Entropy package manager. It still has Portage, so you can compile everything if you want.
[QUOTE=Strongbow;21694200]I've been trying to play about with linux. Went for ubuntu to start as that seemed to have most advertisement/google showed me that first. Manged to get wireless drivers etc working which I'm happy with but wine + gmod seems to cause a lot of steam userid pending issues people have generally said to try non debian based distros as far as I can tell. Could anyone please advise me on a nice user friendly one (I don't want server software because I'm also using the PC for other stuff than servers.[/QUOTE] Sorry, but Ubuntu is just about the most user friendly linux distro out there. Here's an idea, get unix. By the time you're done smashing it on the ground, you'll have no computer! Problem solved.
[QUOTE=supersnail11;21805170]get unix[/QUOTE] that is quite possibly the broadest statement I have ever seen here.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21805971]that is quite possibly the broadest statement I have ever seen here.[/QUOTE] get an os which implements the POSIX standards
get an os
get OS X
get down [editline]08:28AM[/editline] Are you down? Don't be a square, get down right now!
Get something.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;21808310]get OS X[/QUOTE] Might want to try this out if you can afford it.
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