Josh Close wrote: >On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:32:20 -0500, John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com> wrote: > > >>Hi All- >> >>Getting my wife/home computer off of Win2k and have been trying out >>"desktop" distros. I have startcom, xandros, and lycoris burned to >>cdrom. I had startcom on for a few days - she just didn;t like the >>gnome setup and some things didn't work off the bat (dvd/cd burner not >>detected, no NTFS support, Xine stuttered alot etc). >> >>Now normally - I'd love to tinker with it, but at this time and on >>this computer, I don't want to stray into custom setups and quick >>hacks. >> >>Xandros replaced the Startcom install and it looks alot more familiar >>(KDE with redmond decorations) - the Xandros file manager is a lot >>like Explorer, NTFS partitions mounted automagically, Xine works >>great, cdburner detected. The version of Xandros that you buy comes >>with crossover so we should be able to run some windows stuff like >>Quicken word etc. >> >>Next up is Lycoris, then ??? Linodws?. >> >>We need to, out of the box : >> >>mount up old windows drives >>feel like windows >>run quicken >>print photos >>do word and excel like stuff >>email >>surf >> >>I don't mind spending money on the distro if it meets most of the >>above - esp. printing photos and running quicken. Would also like >>nice security updates and package installs... No tinkering needed - >>Stuff Just Works... >> >>thanks >>john >> >>P.S. >> >> I run gentoo on my own computers and on a few servers at work... I >>just don't want ot be tinkering all the time on the home computer >> >> > > > > I am new To Linux; So far the two that seemed to configure almost automatic were Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 10.0 Official Trying to install Mandrake 10.1 and 10.1 r1 Community but some kind of bug which I reported on Bugzilla. Will wait for the 10.1 Official to be released. Jerry _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list