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From my perspective, newish user of ubuntu, found it very user friendly. Easy to update, software is easy to find and install. Haven't tried other distro's so can't comment. But the installation process was a little difficult but that came down to a video driver issue. Was trying to use an external card which didn't have a proprietary driver as part of the package. Defaulted to the internal card, then once working found a driver and transfered back to the other card and all was good.
And there's heaps of help available on forums etc... if you're trying it someones probably solved it.
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"User friendly" often means nothing more than "it works the way I expect it to" or "it works the way I am used to".
As long as you don't expect Linux to be just a free version of Windows, there are a lot of options available.
For what it is worth, I started with Ubuntu about version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). That means it became available in the 4th month of 2007. I was running it on a 10 year old computer. I have updated Ubuntu most times a new version became available and have updated the computer a couple of times, so the computer has always been between about five and twelve years old.
I have looked at a couple of other distros, but there were never enough obvious advantages or differences for it to be worth swapping. Ubuntu has an enormous user base, so help is probably more likely to be available for it than for some other distros.
However, almost every time I looked for help, it was because I wanted to learn something or play around with something, not because I had a problem. Almost all the time, I just install the new version and everything works perfectly.
It does what I want to do, so I see no reason to change. BTW, you will see a lot of criticism of the fact that Ubuntu changed from Gnome to Unity and a lot of people claiming that they have switched to another distro because of it. There are however, a lot of people who are quite happy with it. I have no problems with it at all.
Since you can download distros like Ubuntu, Mint etc for free and run them from a CD to try them without installing, it is simple enough to download a couple of the popular ones and give them a try. It is also a good way to make sure that peripherals like your printer will work. Of course running from CD slows things down, but apart from that, it gives you a chance to try Linux to see of you like it.
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Incisor,
Just to surf the net and play some movies/music that I have downloaded over many years.Ohh and look at the rave dvd that i got when I working on mates disco 300tdi. :D
vnx25,
Thanks for the info,I'll go with ubuntu and see how I go.
cheers
