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Originally Posted by Latch
Give it a shot. Bendsley will talk it up more than me (as it's Debian-based), but I've heard good things about it.
Let us know how it is, what you think, and what you would precieve to be the difficulty level/experience needed to be comfortable with it (if you wouldn't mind reporting back hehe).
I've never used it, and it's relatively new, so I can't really say much either way.
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Well, better late than never, eh?
Installation went smoothly. I wanted a dual-boot with XP, and was afraid of Ubuntu (Debian) accidently axing my partition table (Debian doesn't have the ebst record for installation. Or configuration. Or, well, anything besides stability and package management). So I made some adjustments with Partition Magic beforehand. I got to a point where Ubuntu said that it was having problems with eth0, since it wasn't plugged in. I plugged it in in the other room, and told it to retry. Then it downloads eight thousand packages. Okay. But guess what one of them was... MADWIFI! That's right, linux did something that I never would have expected it to; linux made an executive decision that made my life a lot easier. Finding that out made my day.
After rebooting and everything, I checked out synaptic, the package manager. Easy to use, and contains a whole lot of crap I'd probably never use. But it's waiting for me. Root is disabled by default, making sure nubs like me use sudo instead of haphazardly munging system files. My only complaints are that Ubuntu doesn't detect my laptop's touchpad and doesn't like my soundcard. We'll see what happens when Hoary is released next month.
Overall, 9.8/10 -- if you're a linux n00b, this distro is very yes.
(I'll probably edit this in a couple months when I know more than three command-line, uh, commands.)