Originally Posted by None of the above
Does any particular offering work straight out of the box with minimal intervention from the user to keep it running smoothly?
Glad it's working. I've also had long waits for the update servers and agree with you that Novell/SuSE need to address this problem.
As for other distros, I much prefer KDE to Gnome and can suggest Kubuntu (Ubuntu on KDE) as one alternative to the Gnome based Ubuntu.
I'm really a SuSE fan, but I've always had a soft spot for Warren Woodford's MEPIS Linux -
http://www.mepis.org/ - despite the recent teacup-storms around strict GPL compliance recently. I've got a couple of old MEPIS versions that are really impressive and am waiting for delivery of the latest SimplyMEPIS 6.0 on CD. It's one of the only distros that have the sort of consistency that you can only get when one guy is in charge and whenever I've had a question I've always had a quick and helpful answer from Warren himself.
Originally Posted by None of the above
I want to make the change to Linux as I can see Win XP being ditched ASAP after the introduction of Vista and I don't really want to send Uncle Bill another $200 even if he is down to his last couple of trillion.N o t a
Yes, I'm sure MS will do what they can to get people to move to their all-singing-all-dancing latest mess of DRM, but they won't ditch XP that soon for fear of precisely what you say (they've only just stopped supporting 98SE). But Bill's had his last $$$ off me - by the time Vista SP1 has appeared (to fix the worst bugs), most of the current remaining usability issues in mainstream Linux will have been corrected and Windows will be where it belongs - just another OS.
