ubuntu for novices

[Panos]

First i'd like to make clear that i'm a newbie myself. I've tried Suse 
9.1(KDE) Personal, Mandrake 9.2(Gnome) and now Ubuntu(plan to stick with 
this). Out of the three the most user-friendly and with most 
out-of-the-box functionality semmed to be Mandrake(despite 9.2 being 
quite old). I had performance probs with Suse and had to go through a 
lot of trouble to get DVD playback due to their modified version of 
Kaffeine that refuses to play them. I had to i reinstall both kaffeine 
and xine, but playback was sluggy at best. Mandrake had playback out of 
the box. I liked the Gnome layout . All in all it looked good. Now 
Ubuntu is my favourite of the 3 but i think it could use a few more 
automated processes(and a few more packages in the default cd maybe) if 
Ubuntu is to also target newbies imho. It's still ok though even for 
newbies, i think, since this list seems quite newbie friendly and has 
been quite helpfull and friendly to me as well.

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