you could try the fedora "desktop" release (they just made the split to create Desktop, Server, and Cloud releases. i installed it recently, and aside from the fact i have a chip-set that seems to really offend Linux it was really simple to set up. 

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:39 PM, trent shipley <trent.shipley@gmail.com> wrote:
What is a good, simple desktop oriented distro not derived from Debian or Ubuntu? GnuCOBOL currently has a significant bug on Ubuntu 14. (No. Red Hat and SUSE are not desktop oriented distros.)

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