What should I suggest my Aunt?

[Linux Tyro]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

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> PCLinuxOs is an excellent system with the KDE desktop.  It will not
> blindside a Windows user, as will Ubuntu. Its Forum
> (there is no mailing list) usually produces responses within hours.  You
> can install just about anything you want, and
> you can install RPM software if you need to, altho the devs discourage
> that. (I had IBM's Lotus Symphony on my other
> machine, which I installed from RPM.  It worked fine.  It is a cousin to
> and works like Open/Libre Office, except it is prettier
> and more user friendly.)  I'm writing this from PCLOS, which I use almost
> all the time, except when I have to run some
> s/w that is designed for Windows.
>

Yes and the greatest feature is that PCLinuxOS works out of the box (like
Ubuntu did in my case), without installing a single driver Ubuntu
recognized/installed (whatever it did....) all the drivers --- even for an
old samsung printer (from which I was not able to take the prints in
Windows, since no drivers where there!) and I was readily able to take
prints in Ubuntu and not only that all videos and audios are working just
fine for me in Ubuntu and I hope (pretty sure as you say) PCLinuxOS would
also prove the same.


> I have recently looked at MEPIS with the KDE desktop.  It works pretty OK,
> altho some of the installations are a bit tricky.
> It gets its software base from Debian, which can be a problem sometimes,
> due to Deb's peculiar politics, but there is
> an auxiliary repo that fills in some, but not all, the blanks. You don't
> (and apparently can't) get Adobe Reader, and some
> sound programs that you may need.  They also use a Forum routine, and it
> works, altho it's a bit slower in response than
> that of PCLOS, perhaps because there are fewer users.  I believe MEPIS is
> faster on a given machine than PCLOS, altho if you
> have a fairly fast machine you may not notice the difference.  That's why I
> started looking at it, altho I'm now building a
> faster PC.
>

MEPIS as you have tested might be a good one but as I have to generate the
report for only the said four (since there are many-many distros, and its
not possible to examine all.....), I guess PCLinuxOS is the first for
easiness (out of the box working) and then Ubuntu. One of mine friend told
me for openSUSE but it would not be that simple to use openSUSE as it could
be with Ubuntu (I have seen and tested without knowing Linux) and / or
PCLinuxOS and for Linux Mint, it's more simplified Ubuntu (as what people
call it).

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:50 AM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com>wrote:

I think PCLOS is perhaps the best packaged distro out there - Texstar
> really does do an excellent job. But why not recommend PCLOS Phoenix
> (xfce) - that to me is the best xfce desktop and would have less
> 'bells & whistles' which may be more to her liking (as it is mine).
> However, rpm is slow and that's why i stay with Xubuntu. The repos and
> the package management i still regard as the best after using ubuntu
> since 2007.
>

So amongst these the said four, I have decided to just go for Ubuntu and/or
PCLinuxOS (whatever either xfce or the default KDE) with her choice and I
would definitely say that both are the best Linux Distro available! Easy to
handle - almost everything GUI (I am seeing in Ubuntu) and very less
problems (at least for my general purpose use). I would thank to the creator
of Ubuntu (/Debian) and definitely PCLinuxOS too!

Thanks for the suggestions.

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