Hello @ all,
i hope that i´m right here ... if not sorry ...

My Question:
I´m searching a linux distribution for my girlfriend ...
She only use her laptop for chating and playing games on facebook ...
Anybody knows a good and easy to handle Linux ???

I only works with Debian, Backtrack or Kali but that is nothing for her.
What do u think about Mint oder Suse ?
Or have anybody another idea ?

Best wishes !!!

you can use the one you prefer (or ask her which one does she like). Just download a few of them and boot them (without installing).

unless your machine is old, small or had rare groove hardware. it's mainly aesthetic for a user with the needs of your girlfriend

Try Antix or MX.
http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

I like Mint Cinnamon, LMDE, or even Debian 8.1 w/ Cinnamon. All of them will give her a UI experience that should be similar to what she is used to.

Standard Mint Cinnamon probably comes with the least to do to get it ready for her out of the box, and it has some easy options for her to install applications for herself. The only thing I would do is replace Firefox/Iceweasel with Chromium+PepperFlash. I prefer Firefox, but with Chromium+PepperFlash she gets her flash support easily and it works well.

Mint is cool but what about fedora?

As post 3 says, it's down to a question of what interface she prefers. If she likes your Debian (which I presume is Gnome), then Ubuntu Gnome is good. If she'd prefer a more "phone-like" interface, then the standard Ubuntu's Unity might succeed. If she likes the traditional Windows, then the Mate version of Mint. And for something flashy, with icons zooming or excitedly bouncing, PCLinuxOS with the KDE default. All those are good quality.

PS You might install Great Little Radio Player as well.

Not AntiX: too close to the raw Debian. Fedora for a beginner? Is someone pulling our legs?

Personally I prefer Debian based distros over Fedora due to Debian being non-commercial.

I prefer Ubuntu/Debian based distros over Fedora due to the packages available to Debian/Ubuntu. 56,000+ for Debian/Ubuntu 22,000 for Fedora.

I would recommend Mint. I don't like Gnome 3, which is Fedora's default interface, and Fedora is a bit too bleeding edge for me. Plus their release cycle is rapid, as is Ubuntu's.

However, if you are going to be maintaining the computer for her, the distro doesn't matter as much as the GUI. If she can navigate the GUI, she should be okay. Mint tries to make its default GUIs easy for Windows users to get used to, but, frankly, anything KDE, XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon, or even LXDE should be okay once you show her how to move around the GUI.

I had one of the most computer-illiterate iPad users I have ever met (she asked what a "browser" was--she knew how to use one, but didn't know what the term meant--and didn't realize that that bit of colored text on in a web posting meant a hyperlink) over at my place yesterday using Seamonkey on Slackware --Current.

In the light of that, I'd lean towards one of the more stable distros with a longer release cycle, such as a Mint LTS, Debian, Mageia, OpenSUSE, or even Slackware.

Hello @ all

Wow ... first of all BIG THX for your answers !!!
Also she likes and use windows as desktop because its easy to understand an easy to handle ...
The problem is the laptop ist very old ... 1GB ram an intel pentium m centrino 1.5 ghz processor ...
No chance to setup Windows 7 ... Windows XP runs but very slow and there is no support or updates available ...
So i researched on google a distribution that looks a little bit like windows and that is also easy to handle like windows ...
But the only distributions i found was Mint and Suse ...
This Weekend i will test all your tips an give a reply of my results !!!

Beautiful evening @ all ...

AIZ

As long as you're doing the sysadmin the type of distribution doesn't really matter.

My $SIGNIFICANT_OTHER was using Arch until Debian jessie was released and she isn't computer literate at all.

The only reason I changed her over to jessie is 'cos she doesn't like change...

Slackware. I simply can not recommend Ubuntu any longer.

For those specs, any distro with a very light-weight desktop such as LXDE or a window manager such as Fluxbox would probably be acceptable for surfing the net and playing Facebook. Heavy work, such as editing video, of course, would be a whole nother story.

If it was for me, I'd install Slackware and use Fluxbox.

Good luck.

Now I've seen the specifications, that rules out Gnome, Unity, and KDE! I run Xfce on a similar system, and I'd recommend Linux Lite. It's one of the lightest implementations of Xfce, and it's based on Ubuntu LTS, so your Debian experience will be useful.

My old computer actually runs Salix, but I'm not going to suggest a Slackware-based distro, since you have no experience of it.

You might also look at Lubuntu. It's Ubuntu with LXDE out of the box.