When you are new at Linux, and are looking to find your new Linux operating system, you will notice, that unlike Microsoft Windows, there exist hundreds of different Linux versions - also called distributions, and one can easily get in doubt, as to wich Linux to choose as a newbee. If a distribution is "just to go to" for Linux newbees, or if it takes some more "setup work", before you can get started, is different from distribution to distribution.
Therefor we have gathered some information below as a help in order to pick your first distribution.