A workmate asked me for recomendation for a Desktop Linux distribution to a user without too much experience with computers. That user was a costumer.
My first answer was: Ubuntu. It’s user friendly, stable and it’s easy to add new applications with GUI tools.
After answering that… I added: or Fedora.
This user (costumer, remember) already knows Red Hat in bussiness, but Ubuntu it’s unknown for him. But being honest, I don’t think Fedora it’s right now as friendly as Ubuntu. I know that I can’t say something like this without proving it. Just an example: Ubuntu documentation vs Fedora user guide.
I don’t mean Fedora it’s not a good desktop distribution, but I wouldn’t recommend it to a newbie.
Update: fortunately, the documentation is here for the new shiny Fedora 11. Rectify is of wise people (although when I wrote this post, there wasn’t any documentation).
