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Distro help. Please?
Dark_Me:
Newbie here...
Okay the basics.
I am running on:
Intel Celeron Pentium 4 with 2.3 Ghz
212 Mb of RAM
3 hard drives, 17 GB, 17 GB,39 GB
Only onboard graphics so far :(
This is just for basic home use, nothing fancy or too taxing. Just surfing the net mostly.
I took the Linux Distribution Choser test and got:
Mandriva
PCLinuxOS
Linspire
Xandros
Don't really need a live disc, I do however need dual boot and GUI.
I also need to run Windows programs. Hmm... wine mabey?
As an ending note I would just like to say that I'm a complete noob when it come's to Linux so I need something that's easy to use. I realize that this is one of the flaws (thinking of the average comp user) in Linux but well I can dream can't I?
Oh and Hi!
And since this is a anti-Microsoft forum... Down with Microsoft! All hail er... something else.
Dark_Me:
Oh and I should probably mention that I have no problem with learning GNU/Linux, it's just that I don't know it. Some resources on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Jenda:
Well I'll always recammend Ubuntu for desktop use for all "Human Beings" (non-geeks or demigeeks). Ubuntu has an incredible community, great HW support, great app resources, a near perfect package manager - apt, is quite demanding on resources, but that's not really an issue on a 2.3 GHz CPU (The RAM might be prablematic) - I have 1.6 GHz and 0.75 GB RAM.
Do NOT, I repeat: Do NOT use Linspire! That is Microsoft's incarnation on earth. The evil within the good. The dark spot on the Sun...
cymon:
xandros is gross too. ubuntu is okay to start with, when I get better i'd go for Debian.
Aloone_Jonez:
Just one question why could this not be have posted here?
Duplicate threads are annoying and can lead to confusion so could a moderator please append this to the aforementioned thread.
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