On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:11 AM, jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which,
in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her
windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable.
So, since she is not technically savvy, I was thinking of finding a linux
distro that is practically self maintaining, as she has zero tech savvy for
doing things like updates, configurations, fililing abrt reports, .....etc.
Any ideas what linux to use for such a person?
Thanx.
I'd personally go with CentOS 7.0 (if all the required software is
there) or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
CentOS will most likely out-live Windows 7 and maintains a very strict
update policy (you'll have to work hard to break it) and once
installed correctly, will require little administrative attention. On
the down side, CentOS has far less packaged software compared to
Fedora / Debian / Ubuntu (Even w/ EPEL and RPMFusion enabled).
Ubuntu has far more software, is easier to use, but the Ubuntu's LTS
policy is far less strict than CentOS so breakage due to updates is
more common.
- Gilboa