[LBo] Best linux to install

[T-Rex Ashworth]

One thing to keep in mind...
Install all the media codecs, etc. using Automatix2 for Ubuntu series.  It
makes it easy, doesn't take alot of tweaking, and makes it a complete
distro...

My 2¢ worth...
RA


On 2/19/07, Bert Van Kets <linuxbasics at vankets.com> wrote:
>
> 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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