[PLUG] 'buntus

Word Wizard Word.Wizard at comcast.net
Mon Apr 26 01:18:04 UTC 2010


You may want to try Mepis 8.5

http://www.mepis.org/

I've sampled just about every major distro and Mepis 8.5 seems to more
closely approximate Windows install-and-play friendliness than any
other. It has by far the best KDE implementation, great fonts, useful
user GUI tools and it comes loaded with the basic goodies Windows users
expect, a working FLASH-plugin, multimedia codecs, etc. I've found Mepis
8.5 the best out of the box Linux available, missing only ufw or some
other firewall front end, about the only must-have Windows refugees will
need to download from their Debian repository.  Mepis still employs a
simple useful great-looking boot-loader (grub-legacy w/gfxboot) that you
won't need to be a dark-basement geek to tune to your needs.  

I moved to Ubuntu back in the Hardy days after watching Windows
degenerate in user friendliness, security and even stability from
NT-4/Win2K (great!) --> WinXP (faulty but tolerable) --> Vista (just
plain awful). I still use Ubuntu (10.4-rc) today because for me it
combines some level of user friendliness with just enough complexity and
gotchas to encourage the user to learn about their OS "under the hood"
so to speak. 

Every user is different in their needs tolerances and expectations. To
me this is Linux's greatest strength. That it offers so many different
takes on a basic OS that is a) totally free and b) in most ways much
better than Windows. 

You may also want to scope out Distrowatch to learn more about various
Linux flavors

http://distrowatch.com/




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