This is helpful for users who come from Mac world, a heavily GUI-based OS. Each distro has designed with special purpose and has it own advantages and disvantages.įor newbies, we recommend Ubuntu, one of the most popular and user friendly Linux distros with a well-crafted user interface. As a new comer of potential Linux user, you might have no clue to pick up the right one. There are dozens of Linux distributions you can find via DistroWatch.