Re: I want to migrate to Linux
- From: Chris Cox <ccox_nopenothis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:12:51 -0600
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 20:55 +0000, pcbldrNinetyEight wrote:
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My priorities in order of importance are:
Support for my hardware. (I omitted a list for brevity in this first post
but will supply if you are interested)
Support for WINE so I may continue to use my current software for which
there are no Linux alternatives.
Wine supports less than ~15% of Windows applications and less than
~5% of the top 1000 Windows applications. Just something to keep
in mind.
So in addition to providing hardware, you need to provide ALL of
the software that you expect to get running using wine.
I need to get this OS up and running quickly with little previous
knowledge. Until I have time to learn the syntax of Linux I need to pick a
distro that supports point and click as much as possible. I have told my
wife that she too is migrating to Linux and she also needs a point and
click OS.
I am considering the following distros and given my goals I would
appreciate your input and or additional suggestions:
PCLinuxOS
Ubantu
That's Ubuntu. Often cited as an easy to install use distro.
PCLinuxOS LOOKS really, really nice when it installs ok... IMHO,
it either works great or doesn't work at all. Really no middle
ground.
I chose this NG to post because it looks fairly active. If there is a
better NG for my questions then please advise. Thank you for your help.
I use openSUSE. It's pretty friendly... does have its share
of quirks, but does come pretty complete. All usually have some
kind of "problem" out of the box... not having access to online
patches/updates is somewhat of a problem (definitely a problem
is you care about security issues).
As with Windows, the age where an OS out of the box is
sufficient is gone... IMHO.
My wife (non-techie) uses openSUSE as her base OS and has for
several years now on her laptop(s). She also has the ability
to run XP inside of a virtual machine to run software that
wine (Crossover) is not able to handle currently.
.
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