What should I suggest my Aunt?

[NoOp]

On 10/24/2011 05:56 AM, Linux Tyro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My aunt (who has been a Windows user ever) asked me for Linux. I myself
> being new, told her Ubuntu and after a couple of days she asks me to please
> suggest her about one of following:
> 
> 1) PCLinuxOS
> 2) openSUSE
> 3) Ubuntu
> 4) Linux Mint
> 
> I suggested Ubuntu but she just asked me a brief review (if I could). What
> she wants is just the general works she was doing in Windows but of more
> concern - stability as once she installs she would not go for a change in
> future and then starting learning that one flavor. I know for sure PCLinuxOS
> and Linux Mint are easy for beginners (read and knew) but Ubuntu and
> openSuse could be of more than just having fun! They could (what I guess)
> provide to become a techie-wizard from a non-techie wizard.
> 
> I would be thankful if you can just let me know anything of the great
> experiences people here are having.

Win7. That or Ubuntu 10.04 (an LTS release).

Seriously. I hate to say that, but I no longer recommend Ubuntu
11.x/Ubuntu any longer. I'm in the process of reverting my customers  to
an LTS and/or other distributions. My primary issue is the inability to
have multiple application windows screens shown for click access.

Ubuntu 11.04 at least had the ability to have a GNOME 2 bottom panel
(which I rely heavily upon), but 11.10 took that away completely. The
11.10 GNOME 3/gnome-shell provides a crippled top and
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.desktop/2938
[Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04]
http://img840.imageshack.us/f/screenshot9sw.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/screenshot4wz.png/

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