I use Ubuntu, and it's a great Linux distribution for beginners. Linux itself is just the kernel, so you cant just install it by itself. LAMP can be installed on just about any Linux distro, but Ubuntu 16.04 (just released) has PHP7 available, and thats kind of a big deal for me. I've tried a lot of distros, and I prefer Ubuntu because of the Unity desktop, and the overall polishing of the OS.
