Will you recommend fedora to a newcomer?

[Leon]

Zubin Bharucha <z.bharucha at iu-bremen.de> writes:

> Leon wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Lately, I have been bringing my laptop to work in my office in a
>> Univ. My colleagues are amazed how pretty the os is (I use the default
>> theme). I have shown them some of the greatest features of linux like
>> the security issue and the vast of free software that do a better job
>> than its windows counterpart.
>>
>> They are interested and want me to help them install linux to their
>> laptop too. From my experience with FC5 since test1, I am not very
>> confident. FC5 is great for experienced people who can fix some minor
>> bugs but it doesn't seems to be a distribution to new users. I would
>> now recommend them to use SuSE linux but would be good to hear your
>> opinions.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   
>
> FC5 is awesome. What better way to learn to use Linux than fixing a
> few bugs every now and then? :D
> -Zubin

True. That's the very reason I like linux. However most of the users
just want things to work out of box.

-- 
Leon