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I am new to alternate OS-need help choosing

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voidmain:
Correct, Lindows is just another Linux distro, and it *does* use KDE as the desktop, nothing special. And it uses Wine.  The difference is it's stripped down, customized to try and look like Windows as much as possible, and run some Windows apps under WINE.  And of course I don't believe there will be a no-charge download.  My thoughts are "Lindows is for Lusers".  Get a real distro.

10striker01:
try a dual boot setup with straight DOS on one side and Linux on the other

ChakanTGM:
your method seems best striker. the guy does want DOS right?

Maybe he should try DR-DOS or something   :confused:

Calum:
sounds good, since he wants to be totally M$ free, by the sound of it,

here's the link, if 1st_Gen is interested, or anybody else for that matter...

Re: Lindows, it sounds like you pay a lot of dough to get them to remove some stuff that you would otherwise have got. these guys could make an effort and come up with an OS with the bad points of both windows and linux...
What with all the more and more user friendly linux packages these days, i do reckon that a windows user could come to grips with linux fairly easily after not too long, if they really wanted to.
The thing i think is funny is that most windows users are almost frightened to try linux because they don't know how it works, but i have yet to hear of a linux user who doesn't know their way in and out of windows fairly well...

Autocratic_1st_Gen:
Thanks for the help.  I think those links above will work great!  Only problem now is figuring out which Linux to use.  Any recomendations?

I checked out Mandrake but am still open for suggestions.

-Dustin

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