On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 22:12 +0000, Solo Voyager wrote:
> I have been using WinXP Pro for the last 4 years and have no serious
> complaints about the OS itself other than a serious dislike for M$ and
> its attitude.
> I built myself a new PC about 1-1/2 yr ago. While it is now less than
> top of the line for use with WinVista, it is dual-core and 64bit
> ready. It does function satisfactorily with WinVista Ultimate 64bit
> installed. I've just finished taking a serious look at WinVista and am
> very disappointed in it's value compared to its price, backwards
> compatibility, availability of drivers, M$'s continuing decline in
> attitude and so-on. I think it's finally time to give LINUX as an
> alternative a serious looking into.
>
> I am giving Fedora Core 6, SuSE and Slack consideration because of
> their availability in both 32 AND 64 bit versions as well as their
> being described as good transitions from Windows OS's.
>
> I think I will try FC6 first. I want to install the 32bit version on
> my old Dell Dimension XPS T600(ca. 2000) in order to become familiar
> with it and begin the process of trying to get my peripherals
> (printers, scanners, etc) working and looking at potential ways to
> migrate Windows apps to LINUX or finding LINUX apps with as good of
> functionality.
>
> Right now, I am interested in advice for my stated choices.
> Confirmations or suggestions as to alternatives would be appreciated,
> if it doesn't start a flame-war amongst the differing proponents.
>
> Thx for any advice or observations on this.
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There is usually something broken on SUSE, although they may have
re-engineered a few bits recently and solved the problem of the
perpetually broken YAST. Something else to consider: I ran SUSE on an
Intel Dual Core system and it was unimaginably slow. We're talking
200Mhz slow. No other distro performed thus on the same machine.
Fedora is a well designed OS, which isnt surprising since its a Red Hat
product, but Fedora is really meant to be a playground for developers,
not the average enthusiast. The support for this free experiment is
therefore somewhat below par for a beginner. Yes, it is certainly
possible to learn all of the basic tricks without opting for a degree in
computer science, but its just not the same as having the support of a
newcomer oriented forum.
For this reason I usually recommend Ubuntu, although Freespire and Mepis
might be good choices as well. Ubuntu has a very newbie friendly section
of their forums which allows one to learn with ease ( a relative term
when applied to the experience of the recent Windows immigrant) at one's
own pace. At the end of the day when you have developed sufficient
competence, you still have a powerful distro useful even to the
professional.
No....I dont work for Canonical, but thanks for asking!
David
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