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I think that you are missing the point of Kanotix by labeling it "newbie friendly" or "not newbie friendly". Who cares either way? I LOVE kanotix, recently switching from my previous favorite of kubuntu to a hard drive install of kanotix. I am by no means a newbie, just someone who wanted something stable and easy to configure on my laptop, since I have way less time to tinker than I use to. I've done the slack install. I've done the Gentoo install. I've done the LFS scene, and it was great, I learned a ton about Linux. But in the end, I want something on my work machine that works out of the box, is easy to update, and requires a minimum of tweaking. Kanotix is it. Kano and the developers set out to make a distro that worked great as a Live CD (neccesitating the good hardware detection), and then worked as a hard drive install too (as Knoppix worked POORLY at best for HD install). They have accomplished those goals very, very well (by general community consensus, not just my opinion). Everyone has a favorite distro, and when it comes to tweaking and prodding and playing, mine is Slack. But when it comes to just working, it's Kanotix, without a doubt.

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