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1. What Linux distribution is the best for miners?

2. What Linux distribution is the best for newbie users?

(1) Ubuntu 14.04 and it's direct derivatives like XUbuntu 14.04 seem to be BY FAR the most supported, but 16.04 is starting to get some traction now that AMD has drivers that actually WORK under the newer version.

 (2) Very much a matter of opinion, but since very few other distributions are supported at all I'd have to go with Ubuntu for this as well.

Currently I'm using Fedora with KDE, but It's not a good choice for beginners.

For a start use Ubuntu, because it's easy to use and it has the biggest community. You will find a solution for every problem. This is really important. If you have powerful PC try Kubuntu (Ubuntu + KDE), if your PC is older use Xubuntu (Ubuntu + Xfce). You could also check Mint, It's build on top of Ubuntu.

After year you can switch to another distro like Fedora, Gentoo, Arch or some of the others

1. Ubuntu family including Mint

2. see 1.

Ubuntu has the best 3rd party support. You are more likely to find package repos for Ubuntu than any other distro.
Derivatives like Mint can use them. Many miners are developped on Ubuntu.

Fedora and co is probably better in many ways but slightly less user friendly dealing with 3rd party repos.

Debian for the geeks, Arch for the uber-geeks.

THX for the advices!

First I'll try the xubuntu because my PC is not a newest one.

make sure to get the desktop version of Ubuntu or you'll be looking at a black screen with no idea what to do if you haven't used any Linux type OS yet.

Question:

On my PC I have XP 32bit and win7 32bit parallel. Can I install ubuntu 64bit to third OS?