Linux101: where to start?

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by season (the invisible soul) on Monday, 22-Dec-2014 22:19:43

I have a not quite 5 years old netbook that is currently sitting here collecting dust. It is currently on window 7 home starter and i'm thinking of reformating and installing Linux on it. Any idea where i should start? I'm considering either Ubuntu, Fedora, Dediant, Suzy, Vinux, or, maybe Trisque to a point, as my understand with Trisque is that it doesn't allow non-free program on it, not even Firefox. I assume that my main use for the machine will be web browsing, and word processing with perhaps emails. That means, i would be more than likely uses Firefox, Thunderbird, and perhaps, some other apps for things like Google Drive, Dropbox etc.
What is the better system out of the Linux bunch in terms of accessibilities?