Quote Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
PCLinuxOS has an excellent user forum like here and the guys are pretty good to newcomers unlike some distros where it seems like they would rather discourage new users who aren't familiar with Linux.
What forums might you be talking about? I've tried many distributions (Redhat 8-9, Fedora 3-5, Debian 1.3, Slackware, Gentoo 2004.1-2007.0, Zenwalk 1.7-2.4, Xandros, SymphonyOS, Ubuntu 5.10-7.10, OpenSUSE, SimplyMEPIS, VLOS, paldo and a few others I don't remmeber), most had their own forums. All forums I went to were friendly to newbs... Same with general linux forums such as Linuxquestions and Linuxforums.

Just in case some people may get the wrong idea, the reason I went through so many distributions was because I got a little over-excited about Linux and what was available. I wanted to see what was out there and which one best suited me. All the distributions I tried were great, but just wasn't to my satisfaction, except Gentoo. It would be great if everyone could explore different distributions/flavors, but unfortunately most people don't have the time or hardware too. I was lucky enough to find out about linux while in high school and we had a spare hard drive.