10-04-2009, 07:07 PM
For your first distro, I recommend Linux Mint. It's JUST like Ubuntu, but is a lot more clean and has awesome support. Ubuntu does as well, but I just prefer Mint. As for the original question (and I know it's been answered, but); Linux is indeed a LOT more secure, because there're far less worms and/or viruses written for Linux. In fact, I've never even seen one. You can get ClamAV for Linux, and Mint comes with a firewall preinstalled, but I don't see a point in utilizing either, as I do not host servers or anything like that. VirtualBoxie is of course free, so if you want to use XP for some reason, then it'd be very fast to install and such.
Another thing that I absolutely cannot get over is that most distros that I have seen come with RhythmBox, and I LOVE it because I can just plug in my iPod and it detects all the tracks/playlists on the device, so I can just listen to it on my computer. Also, it incorporates last.fm, which I'm not a great fan of, but a lot of people are.
That's just naming some features. Try it; you'll love it.
Another thing that I absolutely cannot get over is that most distros that I have seen come with RhythmBox, and I LOVE it because I can just plug in my iPod and it detects all the tracks/playlists on the device, so I can just listen to it on my computer. Also, it incorporates last.fm, which I'm not a great fan of, but a lot of people are.
That's just naming some features. Try it; you'll love it.