[LBo] Best linux to install

[Bert Van Kets]

If you want all the multimedia stuff to work, you will have to hand out 
some cash unless you want to spend time tweaking and tuning. Apparently 
that last bit is what you want to avoid. The encoding licenses are 
proprietary, that is why you need to pay up.

I had very good experiences with XandrOS. It's a distribution made for 
people who want to migrate from Windows to Linux. It's a lot slower that 
other distributions, but that what you get for mimicking MS. LOL It's 
still faster than any MS OS though!
There's a version that comes with CrossOver Office, which allows you to 
run several Windows apps.

Give it a go, your wife will thank you.

Bert


Robert Spangler wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I plan on buying the wife a new computer next month.  Hardware isn't going to 
> be any bleeding edge but powerful.  What I'm looking for is a Distro that is 
> user friendly for her (now I understand why people stick with windows).  She 
> hasn't a clue and I need everything to work like it does in windows for her.  
> If she pulls up a web page that has a video link she wants to be able to 
> click that link and it play.  She also has some on-line games that she plays.  
> The reason I ask is I don't do any of this with my machine, but I am sure I 
> could use my distro and get everything working too as long as she doesn't get 
> impatient while it takes time to research everything that is needed.
>
> Suggestions?
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