For a new bie, who wish to migrate from windoz,
which linux is better to be the starting point?

www.distrowatch.com
or

www.linuxquestions.org and click the "search" button as there must be a thousand threads exactly the same as this one.

mandriva is good, nice design and easy to use.

http://eedok.voidofmind.com/linux/chooser.html
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php
http://www.tuxs.org/chooser/

ubuntu is good or not?

I'd say its an okay distro, but a bit over hyped.

it's as good as you want it to be

how about gentoo ?

i also tried SUSE live CD, not bad.

installation of gentoo is formidable
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-...ickinstall.xml

Yeah, but at least it has a manual .
If you follow the instructions, you can't go wrong.

fedora core 4 is splendid

Im Also a Windoze 2 Linux convert!

After many windows headaches mainly due to spyware,adware,trojans,viruses.....and the usual crap that comes with using the net alot with XP. I Decided to take a Giant leap of faith and and kiss goodbye to bill gates and his horde of money grabbing minions.

Ive tried many distros to date, OpenSUSE 10,FC3,FC4,CentOS 4.1,Mandriva, & a few more smaller distros whoose names i forget...lol. I finally found my Current distro of choice (BLAG 30000) Tried the new 40000 Alpha but it was to unstable for my newbie skills to handle.

So if you like Fedora Core 3 Or 4 Give BLAG a GO! I Guarantee you wont be dissapointed.

MP3.AVI,P2P,and much much more.

Just found this little Gentoo based linux distro for n00bs like myself that want to give gentoo a bash without the headaches of a text installer! VLOS uses the same installer as Fedora,Redhat (Anaconda Installer)

http://desktop.vidalinux.com/index.p...tpage&Itemid=1

or the next link for an older release that includes the Athlon XP optimized ISO`s

http://mirrors.hpcf.upr.edu/ftp/pub/...entooAnaconda/

This is 1 of the few distros ive come across that have Athlon XP Optimized ISO`s usefull as i have an OLD....lol Athlon XP 3200+

If you're a newbie, avoid Gentoo for now, the installation from stage 1 takes about 4 days and loads of nerves. The result is quite nice though

Go for Mepis, Mandriva or Knoppix. My start with Red Hat 9 was ok.

-A