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[RightvsLeft]

After no luck in being able to restore my windows file issue I want to know which is more fun to play with and is better RED HAT LINUX 6.2 OR UBUNTU ???

[arochester]

It's YOUR decision, not mine. Why not try both?

Your heading is so descriptive of your "problem." (Not.)

Which football team is best? Which religion is best? Which political party is best? The answer is subjective and not objective.

[StealthyV]

Try Linux Mint or Puppy Linux. Linux Mint has the distinction of being Ubuntu-based, but much more functional (IMHO), and Puppy Linux is screamin' fast on old computers, like my 1998 Dell laptop (400mhz CPU)!

The fun of computing is that the only limits to the amount of "fun" you can have are your own imagination and willingness to get your fingers dirty. It's better to point you in the right direction than it is to make decisions for you.

Learning is an individual experience. Joining TechIMO.com will be helpful for you when questions come up- but inevitably, you will need to have faith in your own abilities. Only then will you have "fun" figuring out the unknown!

~Branson

[SeanC]

I agree with arochester, try out multiple distributions and see which one you like.

When I first started with Linux, I distro-hopped all the time, Ubuntu to Redhat to Suse to Debian to Mint to Puppy to lots of small projects until I finally settled on Ubuntu. I know how to configure it in less than an hour to get it the way I like it from a fresh install.

If you don't like one distro then axe it and get another one! The beauty of Linux.

[RicheemxX]

+1 to that

I'm always testing out new live distros or running installs via virtual machine, it's a quick easy way to see what you think and no messing with installing. openSUSE.org was my last full install

[quickoldcar]

Try sabayon, pclinuxos, knoppix, kubuntu or ubuntu.

Why not go try centos as well.

Is so many of them, just download the live cd's and try them out, no need to do full installs for testing.

Go here to check out all the live cd distro's

The LiveCD List

[KarmaKiller]

+1 to Sabayon. Ubuntu and Kubuntu are also nice. Might also give Mint a look.
Honestly I wouldn't decide on one till I tried a few different distros out.

[jaqu]

Red Hat 6.2 is pretty old, so based on that alone I would go for a newish Ubuntu.

Though I'm using OpenSUSE 11.2 atm and it's pretty cool. Even got my old Nvidia NVS 120 installed with proper nvidia drivers, which I battled doing with some other distros.

But if it helps, Ubuntu is pretty much the most user friendly distro that I've tried, followed closely by OpenSUSE. Fedora (which is basically the closest distro to the old Red Hat) was a failure, maybe because I was still very bad with Linux when I tried it. But in attempt to get my sound to work I broke the OS. Also tried Mandriva, not bad, but I could never get my Nvidia card to work properly.

Also if you have any choice use the GNOME desktop manager. The KDE desktop manager gave me endless troubles. GNOME is much more user friendly and very nice if you are new to Linux. The more experienced guys will surely choose KDE.

Hope that helped.