Why choose Fedora?

[A..L..F]

Hello, I am new, my name is Agustín. I'm tired of Windows, is slow, with a virus and you have to pay.

Looking for an alternative, I found Linux, but there are many distributions. I use the computer for surfing, chatting, listening to music, and to program in Ruby.

My hardware is as follows:

Intel Pentium 4, 2.40 GHz
1.5 GB of RAM
NVIDIA FX 5200

I want a system, stable and fast.

And with Fedora'm going to learn Linux?. Because I read that with other Linux distributions do not learn the OS.

PD: Sorry, I can`t speak very good English, but it is not a problem.

Thanks!.

They say that with Fedora you will learn Fedora/Red Hat and if you want to learn Gnu/Linux you should use Slackware. Well, I have learned linux with red hat, slackware and debian, the 3 main linux distros. Stick to one of them and study a lot. My guess is: you won't leave Fedora for nothing! It is the best!

[stefan1975]

potatoes potatos. linux is linux no matter what color you pour it in (brown, green, blue). You can learn linux in any flavor you try, however for the casual things you mention (music and stuff) fedora is not the easiest distro around nor is it the most stable or longest supported. If you want something that just works you could try mint/ubuntu with the additional benefit that it is easier to learn and does non-free multimedia more or less out of the box. If you want stuff to tinker with, to break, to fix, to work with then fedora is as good as any plus it shows you new stuff before other distros do (and before it is *very* stable). you can learn linux any way you want to but have to ask yourself what you goal is. OpenSUSE does everything in YAST so that might not be the best place to learn in, Arch does EVERYTHING on the CLI so you are forced to learn hard and fast, fedora is somewhere in between, but keep in mind you have to reinstall (or risk an upgrade) every other release .... things are that fast here. Ubuntu LTS will be supported for 5 years and CentOS for decades ..... so ask yourself what is important for you first. New stuff? welcome to fedora! otherwise you might want to check out the others first like debian/ubuntu/mint/centos.....those qualify more for the stability you described where I would prefer ubuntu LTS for a beginner and CentOS for something boringly stable but older software as well.

in the end as long as it is linux....

stefan