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I picked CentOS when I was a newbie. In my experience it seems like Ubuntu is preferred.
Centos because they think that is what all the cool people use then they realized how much it sucks then they go to debian or ubuntu
debian if low on memory, e.g. 128mb or less. ubuntu otherwise
We see a mix of CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. Usually the latest release available that we have.
From my experience, I'd say Ubuntu. A long time ago, I used to use Red Hat/CentOS but after I tried Ubuntu, I never looked back.
I prefer Ubuntu, always use the latest LTS (12.04 for now), the second choice is Debian.
I also use ArchLinux if possible (not on OpenVZ).
Debian
This is not a what distro do YOU prefer, it's a what distro do NEW CLIENTS prefer thread.
You killed the discussion by excluding CentOS...
I'm making tutorials for newbies and I need to do one in Debian or Ubuntu, already have CentOS made. I just want to do it in the one that most newbies get when they get a new VPS.
if you mean newbie, maybe ubuntu
From my experience, CentOS because it is the "extension" of RHEL.
Ubuntu is the easiest
When I was first starting with my VPSs I chose the latest version of Ubuntu because of it being well known and being a ubuntu user for awhile. Tried Debian and will never go back unless I'm forced to.
Also using yum in Centos might seem to ease lots of stuff when you google and could be one factor to people choosing Centos. As for Debian and Ubuntu I'm just guessing that Debian has more users using it in LEBoxes, usually it's found to be the better choice and even has build essentials.
just no. I agree with Intcs
What I mean is it is the easiest for newbie, just point and click. My first was FreeBSD, then moved to Yellow Dog, then moved to Mandrake, then move to SuSe, then move to Debian, at work I use RHEL, and now I'm using CentOS mostly
Easily Ubuntu and perhaps if it fits your business model a debian 128k tutorial.
CentOS 4.3
I guess it depends I started on Ubuntu on my laptop first distro I tried so I am used to it, I mainly use it on most of my VPS's 10.04 11 and 12, I've also got a few Centos boxes and some with Debian Lenny & Squeeze.
In all honesty they are all similar when you aren't using a GUI....
Ubuntu 12.10 on my workstation. Never use LTS versions on personal computers because there is no need for it. Waiting eagerly for 13.04 because it will bring lots of performance improvements for unity and the core \m/
Not related to 'newbies', but interesting though:
56% of deployments are Ubuntu
21% of deployments are Debian
17% of deployments are CentOS
2.2% of deployments are Fedora
1.8% of deployments are Arch
Source: Linode's about page
Cool @Evixo. Now we have a winner
Maybe not, but partly so.
ubuntu!!
Point and click in terminal has nothing to do with Ubuntu. Even if it it was only supported in Ubuntu, that'd just be a feature others lack, not change anything for newbie.
Of course you're probably talking about GUI, in which case you don't seem to have heard of something called Ubuntu Server Edition, which is the one used on... servers... (this discussion is about VPS, not desktop).
Newbies use Ubuntu. (i'm not saying Ubuntu is bad or people who use Ubuntu is bad, just hear me out)
When you're limiting this discussion to those two, they'll always choose Ubuntu.
You know why? Because Ubuntu is better known in the not-so-in-depth linux people crowd. Hell even SteamPowered.com supports Ubuntu as its main Linux Distribution.
So honestly, newer people will go with a name they know, that they remember, and that'll be Ubuntu. Once they use Ubuntu they'll like it and be fine with it.
Until it breaks. And then they cry. And then go to Debian.
I'd agree with Ubuntu, for the same reasons as halfeatenpie, it gets way more coverage in non-linux centric press/media, and i suspect it's existing popularity is why valve chose to use it for steam.
i'm kinda glad i pre-date ubuntu. my first linux when i was a newb was debian 2.2, which a friend burned 7 CDs for me for because broadband was rare, and my only linux experience at the time was using redhat workstations at uni.
i use ubuntu on my home server because whenever i last built it the current debian was ~18 months old and i didn't want to wait for the next release. I think every VPS I have is debian though, and i can't see me using anything without apt any time soon.
Newbie's seem to go for Ubuntu, personally I prefer CentOS.
Non of the people replying here are newbies. Newbies don't know which Linux distro to use. Usually they get a managed VPS with cPanel. So that usually means CentOS.