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Lindows
Pantso:
Damn! I thought I was 'right on target'. Are you still using RH or have you 'moved' to Fedora? In any case, I believe that Slackware is a better choice ;)
flap:
No, I haven't used Fedora, but it was Red Hat's discontinuation of their home distribution that inspired me to want to switch. I could use Fedora I suppose, but Slackware is attractive for a few reasons (simplicity, less hand holding, BSD style init etc.)
Mistshadow:
quote:PS: Not all the software is free, you have to pay for extra (free) software.
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True. This is the only things that keeps me from recommending Lindows. Other than that, it would be great.
But I don't understand one thing. Lindows is Debian-based. Can't you just edit your sources list and apt-get any software you want?
Calum:
for total newbies i have to say i think mandrake is up there with the best of them no matter what you say about lindows, plus it is fairly similar to red hat, the nearest thing we have to a standard, and i think that's a good thing because fragmenting newbies with a lot of nonstandard stuff will only weaken the hold of linux amongst the userbase.
and if lycoris desktop would sort itself out it would qualify as a good one for a newbie too i think.
i have not tried suse or lindows sadly, so can't comment, but from what i have heard about lindows, it sounds like lycoris. newbie aimed, but with a lot of rough corners. plus lycoris is free and lindows isn't, so who you gonna call? i still say mandrake though, although i frown on their dumbass installer which hides all the options you will want to change once you've installed the system.
Mistshadow:
Lycoris, right, I forgot about them. Good distro for newbies. But I think Mandrake Move (now offically out), another live cd, would be the absolute best place for a Windows user to start. Then a little research, then try an install.
My prime advice would be "take it slow". It took me, I guess 3 months, to finally settle on SuSe.
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