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		Gormo on March 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: That’s it, we’re quitting Can anyone recommend a good novice-friendly Linux distro with a clean, consistent UI that isn't being progressively replaced with presumptuous avant-garde nonsense?

hasenj on March 26, 2011 [–]

Grab a (recent) version of Ubuntu and don't upgrade.

This only sounds like a joke, but it's not. Ubuntu is perfectly fine with the idea of not upgrading for years. Hence LTS releases.

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