Hi All- Getting my wife/home computer off of Win2k and have been trying out "desktop" distros. I have startcom, xandros, and lycoris burned to cdrom. I had startcom on for a few days - she just didn;t like the gnome setup and some things didn't work off the bat (dvd/cd burner not detected, no NTFS support, Xine stuttered alot etc). Now normally - I'd love to tinker with it, but at this time and on this computer, I don't want to stray into custom setups and quick hacks. Xandros replaced the Startcom install and it looks alot more familiar (KDE with redmond decorations) - the Xandros file manager is a lot like Explorer, NTFS partitions mounted automagically, Xine works great, cdburner detected. The version of Xandros that you buy comes with crossover so we should be able to run some windows stuff like Quicken word etc. Next up is Lycoris, then ??? Linodws?. We need to, out of the box : mount up old windows drives feel like windows run quicken print photos do word and excel like stuff email surf I don't mind spending money on the distro if it meets most of the above - esp. printing photos and running quicken. Would also like nice security updates and package installs... No tinkering needed - Stuff Just Works... thanks john P.S. I run gentoo on my own computers and on a few servers at work... I just don't want ot be tinkering all the time on the home computer _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list