your wife/home computer? I know that some people get attached to their computers but.....man, that is kinda sad. On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:32:20 -0500, John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock) _______________________________________________ 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