Daniel, It is really surprising how little you need to depend upon vendor Linux drivers for things to "just work". I bought a FOXCONN motherboard with onboard nVidia video and a 64bit AMD processor. It "just worked" with Kubuntu, no muss, no fuss. Video, sound, keyboard, mouse, LAN, etc. Wireless is another matter. Make sure your wireless choice is supported by Linux. KDE... I've set up Kubuntu v7.10 on an old HP as a spare for my Dad in case is Dell crashes, and he can barely tell the difference between his WindowsXP and the Kubuntu. -- ========== Todd Young -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Daniel Burke <dedrizen at yahoo.com> <SNIP> > What do I look for to make sure the hardware I choose is compatible with > Linux? > > To keep things simple for my wife, I was thinking of going with KDE. Is this a > good choice? </SNIP> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Daniel Burke <dedrizen at yahoo.com> Subject: [tclug-list] New to Linux Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:17:23 +0000 Size: 5791 Url: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080205/334dbc8d/attachment.eml