What are some good distributions for newbies? I'm not talking about your grandma who only uses the computer for surfing and solitaire.
I'm talking about fairly intelligent people who who know their way around windows and are tired of dealing with it.
What are the important features of said distributions?
Answer
Ubuntu is a good choice.
One of the features about it that I really like is what I call the "desktop swap" feature. It's basically like an alt + tab of sorts, but instead of going through applications, you have 4 (I think) desktops to play with. So you can have a dev desktop, a gaming desktop, a correspondence desktop (email, doc writing, etc.). At least that's how I used it.
Also, just FYI, I set this up on a VM on had it up and running flawlessly in like 30 minutes. The only manual thing I had to set up was the NIC, but I have a feeling that was just because I was running it as a VM. Really great way to run the distro if you don't want to whipe your windows box outright, but want to try something new (or for testing!)
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