content: Yeay Ubuntu.  Seriously, for claiming to be the most user friendly Ubuntu is the most broken overly amitious project.  And broken is the one thing new users can't deal with so it litterally means it is the most un-user friendly distro.  If you can get debian to install it is more user friendly because it's stable.  Exactly what new users can deal with.  Mint also while based on Ubuntu is also more stable because they know what their goals are instead of changing their minds about things every release.  They also base their work off of other people's work instead of reinventing the wheel (poorly) and inserting their own code into other people's projects thus making it incompatible and buggy the way Ubuntu does. Seriously, Ubuntu is the last Distro I would recommend.  Try anything else and you will have joy. (except arch and gentoo unless you like that sort of thing, which I do, then you will in that case also have joy.)