Hello Biostars community,
I have trainees who are learning how to use bioinformatics tools for microbial comparative genomics. Although they can do a lot in Geneious, and they are learning a lot from working with it, I would like my trainees to start working on a Linux distro soon. By doing so, I think they can get a lot more out of their learning experience and they can have the opportunity to try more bioinformatics software.
When I was a beginner myself, I got introduced to Linux Mint, and then I tried BioLinux (Ubuntu). However, I have read comments that the distro that might facilitate the most the transtion from Windows to Linux for beginners could be elementaryOS. I have not read any comments about elementaryOS used in bioinformatics. Any comments on working with elementaryOS? Which distro would you recommend for beginners?
Are the participants expected to install the distro themselves? On bare metal or as a VM in windows?
They will be using laptops that I will set up with the distro.