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Originally posted by guesst@May 5 2006, 10:08 PM
My linux buddy seems to favor Debian at the moment. Long time between "official" released, but he brags that the "unstable" version is actually spot on at any given moment. Plus he loves the Multi-media functionality of it.
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I've found that; Debian is nice, and the installation procedure was comprehensible but gave lots of options for customisation, which is always nice.
As for GUIs, I'll be going for Fluxbox when I get round to installing Linux on this PC (and getting some drive rails for the other drive...) because I like the stripped-downness. Either Gnome or KDE will be fine for anyone who's used to Windows or OSX - each can be set up to behave like any OS you're used to when you first run them.
You don't necessarily need a drive dedicated to your chosen distro, but it's a lot harder to accidentally erase stuff you meant to keep that way (though I'm sure you're capable of partitioning a drive
). If you want to share files between dual-booting OSs, you'll need a FAT32 partition or drive available.