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Is this a good idea for me a new linux user ?

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Calum:
are you seriously suggesting you want to use a desktop environment that doesn't come with the system, isn't recommended by anybody and you would have to install it yourself? plus it even insults you with its interface?

all this would make linux harder, believe me.

I suggest using mandrake, red hat or lycoris desktop. none of those are perfect, but they are certainly the easiest.

Pantso:
A windows manager for Linux that looks like XPee?   :eek:   OMG! This is weird! For God's sake stick with KDE, GNOME or some other window manager (Xfce is also great!).   :eek:

SAJChurchey:
Hmmm...

Making your desktop just like Windows won't really help you learn linux.  It'll help convert users, but if you want to learn to troubleshoot and administer Linux system, you might want to become familiar w/ the popular Desktop Environments like KDE and GNOME.

TheQuirk:
It seems to have a nice file manager, though. Isn't someone looking for one that looks like the XP one?

Doctor V:
Getting a desktop that looks like XP isn't going to make Linux much easier or harder.  All the desktop is is the GUI, the menus and how pointing and clicking and stuff is handled, and especially the appearence.  Configuring the desktop to make it look exactly how you want is one of my favorite things about Linux, and a newbie can surely do that much right off the bat.  The internals are the same whether you use the XP desktop, KDE, Gnome, or whatever.  But I think you might be missing out on alot if you just try to make everything in Linux be like windows.  So try out KDE, thats my favorite desktop, try it with Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, Lycrosis, or somthing.   And Linux isn't that hard, don't be intimidated.  Just does things differently sometimes, and it takes a little getting used to.

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