Which Linux for Non-music?

[Sky Blue Lou]

Someone mentioned SUSE. (Rob maybe?) I've never heard of it. Red Hat and Ubuntu are the only versions I've ever heard of and I've never used either.

I am going to put together a NAS basically in a spare i5 box I have kicking around. I actually have an i7 as well that I could use. This will be for backing up all the home machines and serving data that doesn't need to live permanently on laptops; budgets, taxes, banking and etc.

Thoughts? and thanx.

 

[drtechno]

Someone mentioned SUSE. (Rob maybe?) I've never heard of it. Red Hat and Ubuntu are the only versions I've ever heard of and I've never used either.

I am going to put together a NAS basically in a spare i5 box I have kicking around. I actually have an i7 as well that I could use. This will be for backing up all the home machines and serving data that doesn't need to live permanently on laptops; budgets, taxes, banking and etc.

Thoughts? and thanx.

I would use an offshoot of Ubuntu called Xubuntu since its really light weight and doesn't use a 3D accelerated desktop like Ubuntu

 

[Eric Malone]

Linux is Linux. All of the various distros are more then capable of what you are asking.

Pick your flavor. I'd suggest a non-GUI version. I like the Debian based distros, so Ubuntu server would be my choice.

Or buy a NAS, Synology is decent.

EL

 

[Slouching Raymond]

Someone mentioned SUSE. (Rob maybe?)

That'd be me. just check out opensuse.org
I just downloaded their latest Leap version, and put it on a usb stick.

 

[Xenon 6]

If you are asking that question you are new to Linux. Linux Mint has a reputation of being easy to use for people transitioning from the Dark Side (I mean Microsoft Windows). I set up my wife on Linux Mint I put on a used Lenovo T470s bought from eBay. (great little laptops). I spent 30 minutes training her and she has barely had a single question since.