linux forums

For many, if not most, Linux users, the Linux forums are vital. If we need advice, tips, news, information, or just a good laugh, the forums are usually good places to start out.

If you're interested in a particular Linux distro, you can look for reviews, check out sites like Distrowatch, or find the distro's Wikipedia entry, but short of installing the distro and trying it out for yourself, you'll seldom find a better way to get a feel for what a distro is all about than to spend some time at that distro's forums.

Here are some of the Linux forums where I spend (far too much) time contributing or just "lurking":

- MepisLovers forums
- Debian User Forums
- Ubuntu forums
- Linux Mint forums
- Scot's Newsletter Forums' "All Things Linux" forum (under the name "saturnian")
- linuxquestions.org forums
- Kubuntu forums
- PCLinuxOS forums
- Klikit forums

If you're going to try Linux, it's a good idea to set up a forum account for whichever distro you choose, and to, at the least, stop in from time to time to see what's going on with your distro.