[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Ubuntu has long been the most newbie-friendly distro. Meaning you can use it entirely via the GUI, and it looks nice and familiar to people with a Windows background.

Just in the last few years, what with the hugely unpopular GNOME3 debacle, and Ubuntu being no better with Unity...

A lot of people still recommend Ubuntu. Not me though.

Linux mint is based off Ubuntu, just as newbie-friendly, with the advantage of a GUI which doesn't look vomit-worthy (IMHO ).

I took a look at Linux mint and liked what I saw - a lot. I was kind meh about Ubuntu at the time. Completely different feeling about LM. I like the look, etc. For better or worse, I like a decent GUI.