[OSGeo Africa] Linux distributions - recommendations?

[Charles Rethman]

Hello all,

Which Linux distribution is generally recommended for placing on a Mac partition? Ubuntu, Mint or any other? Its my first Linux installation so ease of use counts and it should work well with a Macbook touch pad and Mac gestures. I would prefer not to use a virtual machine but I would like to be able to read the Macintosh partition from the Linux one so I don't have to keep and sync copies of files that I'm working on with QGIS and other packages under Mac.

I know this is veering somewhat off-topic but the reason for my trying out Linux is to be able to a richer experience with OS geo-software... Thanks.
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