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Unlike Sobell’s volume, which is one of those fat, everything and the kitchen-sink computer books, Grant focuses on making it fun for beginners to learn Ubuntu Linux.

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Linux has many hundreds of distros, but the best ones for beginners have more hand-holding and some Windows-like familiarity.