Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
Knoppix isn't suitable for most users to install to hard disk, there are plenty of warnings about that all over this site.

But the question was "why recommend Ubuntu over Debian", not why recommend it over Knoppix. As far as I concerned Debian is a much better choice for most users. Of course, there are hundreds of different Linux distros and any one user may find reasons to use one over another, I would never suggest that everyone should use the same distro. But I've never seen a good reason to advocate Ubuntu over Debian, except in the rare case where Ubuntu may temporarily have a driver that Debian has not yet released. So my question was why you made a pretty general recommendation for someone else to use Ubuntu, when Debian had already been mentioned in the thread? Do you have some reason to prefer Ubuntu over Debian?
No reason - except I've tried it and I like it. Debian may be good for a "GUIGuy" also - don't know, haven't tried it.

I just went to one of the web sites that monitor the various Distros, and Ubuntu was at the top of the list, seemed like it did everything I wanted - I tried it and I liked it. Its not a MAC, or Windows, but its good... and... I assume it doesn't suffer from the security issues of Windows. At least that's why I was motivated to try it.