What to go for? I would agree with Richmond that xfce is the current desktop of choice. My own distro of choice is Debian, but if this is your first shot at Linux I would go with PCLinuxOS, XFCE Edition.
I would also agree with Richmond to install on a separate hard drive. Its cheap and its foolproof. Installing PCL in this way will be no harder than installing a big application. The PCL magazine is great, its a really friendly user group. It updates fairly slowly. It has a very nice control panel system where you do everything through GUI, which derives ultimately from Mandriva. If you get serious about Linux you will end up with Debian in the end. But in the meantime, PCL will do the job very well for you. Get it here: http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=10 You will have to install OpenOffoce or LibreOffice yourself, but they make that very easy too, providing a direct link to it. Basically all you have to do is insert your hardware, then boot from the CD, and choose 'install'. Point it to the blank hard drive and have coffee. Debian will still be there when you get around to wanting it. Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-A-couple-of-links-about-Gnome-and-usability-tp4498147p4508078.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
