Best Linux Distro for a home user 2920
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 07:54:30 -0800, Tavish Muldoon
Michael Heiming # lsmod grep snd sndintel8x0 33249 1 sndac97codec 67489 1 sndintel8x0 sndpcmoss 47989 0 sndmixeross 17089 1 sndpcmoss sndpcm 93001 4 sndintel8x0...
There is not 'best distro for a home user'. There is "what's best for you". According to what you've told us, I would think any mainline distro should work. You should visit www.distrowatch.com regularly for a while before making a committment. Also www.yolinux.com and www.tldp.org will be useful.
I'd suggest you boot some 'live CD's' first: knoppix would be good to give you a feel. You might boot the Ubuntu live cd and maybe the SuSE live eval, as well.
I think you'd be quite satisfied with Mandrake 10.1 or Ubuntu. Yes, installation is quite simple - generally easier than MS because you don't often have to go hunting for drivers.
Black Sun and said: snip "Serious Linux courses"? All the crap you need is on your system already; it's just a matter...
OpenOffice will handle your office chores, but I'd also look at AbiWord word processor (it sometimes handles complex MS Word docs a little better, and it's smaller and faster. I also use gnumeric for a spreadsheet as opposed to OO. One of the key features of Linux is CHOICE. I do a bit of editing of digital camera images, and GIMP does what I need - I've never used Adobe Photoshop, but to me GIMP is quite easy to use - just right click over the image and go through the menu til you find what you want to do.