<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 10/24/2011 08:56 AM, Linux Tyro wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAOEtSuZabZc+CVsV40GiKqhcVpaaAYAugq15wbcajvwG==ao=A@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">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. Thx. -- Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says, "What's wrong?" "I've lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!" =================================================== <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://sites.google.com/site/whyilikeubuntu/" target="_blank">I really get less time!</a> =================================================== </blockquote> 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. 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. --doug <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley </pre> </body> </html>