which is best linux?
 

I want most user freandly linux with all facility.please suggest me best version of linux which have audio & video drivers.

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Every Linux distro is most user friendly if you want it to be and every Linux distro has audio and video drivers.What I'm saying is I can't answer your question.You will have to find out for your self.It's the best way.

I say that the best distro to start with is PCLinuxOS. Search on google for it (or for PCLOS-it's the same thing). It's easyto install and easy to configure. Start by downloading a live cd with this distro to see if you like it.

try ubuntu.. it is claimed to be "more human oriented".. i may be wrong ;)

I think the best method is to download a bunch of livecds and try out a few distros.

You can't ask someone for your own personal preference. That would be like asking someone to tell you what your favorite pizza topping is.

Impossible
 

You're asking a catch-22 question. The most user friendly version won't have everything you might need for audio and video. The best audio and video applications must be installed from a repository, and more than likely are proprietary. The easiest distributions to use are usually packaged in a live/install CD but won't have all the codecs you may need. The distros with the best software are usually less newbie friendly, but have the most up-to-date packages available. It depends on YOU, and what you want to do. Are you a musician with audio software needs? Do you want to take videos from a video camera and make a DVD? Do you want to download music and make music CDs? Do you want to download AVI movies and make DVDs? Do you wnat to create a website/server with audio/video capabilities? Do you want to illegally copy DVD movies to store on your computer? Do you want to illegally copy DVD movies to a DVD? It depends on what you want to do.

asking which nix distro is the best is like asking "what is your favorite food", everyone is going to have a different opinion.

As for your question, I really would try Ubuntu. Its user friendly and its has a loot of online support. Not only that but there is a repo called medibuntu (check out the website www.medibuntu.org) that has all the media stuff you will need. It will even tell you how to add their repository.

I agree, if you want a user-friendly distribution which has all of the multimedia packages pre-installed, use pclinuxos. Ubuntu is also friendly, and it is easy to install the multimedia stuff, but some things are not installed by default.

Try Red Hat Fedora 8
 

If you want to enjoy Linux but want to start learning it as well, I suggest Red Hat Fedora 8. I recently installed it on VMware on my WinXP laptop and like the way it is so far.

Regards,
AJ N.

Another good choice if you want the user-friendliness of Ubuntu with all the multimedia stuff pre-installed and configured is linux mint. I have not used it myself, but I have heard good things about it. Also consider simplymepis. It has all the pluses of the debian/ubuntu software repositories, and has many multimedia packages installed by default, but maybe not as many as pclinuxos.

I suggest to download a whole bunch of Live Cds and try them out. The Linux distro that I really like is OpenSuse, I have used Red hat and fedora before and I think SuSe is very user friendly but again is all your own personal choice.
go and check it out.
www.opensuse.org

Ark Linux is a very newbie-friendly distro. It doesn't prompt you for root passwords all the time just to do simple stuff (read up on the Ark Security System in Ark's wiki). As for whether or not it has your video/audio drivers, I don't know because you do not tell us what you have.

It's a simple question really.... do you want to just use Linux? Or do you want to learn Linux?


Just use Linux:

Ubuntu/Kubuntu
PCLinuxOS
Arch Linux
OpenSuSe


Learn Linux:

LFS
Gentoo
Slackware

Debian (falls under same category as the *buntu's but without all the fancy GUI's)

Try the top 10 here and make up your own mind: http://distrowatch.com/

Polish linux gives some good camparisons of the different flavours available.

Try Puppy linux live cd. I recently used it in my pc. It runs as a live cd but can also be installed into a hard disc from the Live cd. It has most of the basic apps needed by an average user.

Viron,

what do you mean by USE and LEARN?

hey ceantuco,

USE and LEARN. the question is are you interested in linux and want to LEARN about it then use the distros viron suggested. if you don't want to mess around with linux just USE it without bothering too much about it then choose those. in other words, ubuntu, suse, redhat are easy to use linuxes but they try to hide as much detsail from the user as possibile whereas slackware, gentoo and especially LFS (linux from scratch) are not so easy to use for a beginner...

there is no best distro. i personally recommend the LEARN linuxes :). but have it your way...

have fun, vadkutya

Mandriva or (K)Ubuntu are undoubtedly the easiest for a noob. Personally I think Mandrva is better than The *buntus, but as others have said, try them and make your own mind up.

Hah, you used my reference to food in a different context. :D

Anyway, like I said and a few others did, it really depends on your personal preference.
Linux distros aren't one size fits all like Windows (or none, depending on how you look at it :P)

To get something up quick, try out Fedora and Ubuntu, but don't just download those and settle. Try out all the distros you can get your hands on...

I tried ubuntu 8.04, but it songs not playing other than (.wav) files.

You have to provide more information for us to help you. Since this thread is about "which distro is best", many people will not see the question on audio.

I suggest you start a new thread with a specific question---including details of exactly what does not work.