Sitting typing this on my new PCLinuxOS installation which is now co-existing happily with Windows XP on my home desktop machine.
Having had various dabblings with Linux before, and always having given up frustrated and wondering why the heck anyone bothers, this is like a breath of fresh air. The partitioning setup was a bit of a faff for the uninitiated, and I ultimately chickened out and did most of it in Windows where I'm more comfortable, but the install itself, was an absolute breeze. The install package sets up the GRUB bootloader to give you the option of which OS to boot from at startup. Even this is a rather swish GUI which does exactly as you would expect.
On booting into Linux, all I had to do was set a root password, set up a user account and password, and enter the WPA key for my wireless network. Without doing anything else, I have web browsing, full resolution graphics, sound, wireless connectivity, ethernet etc etc. A fully functional PC. Even getting my HP Deskjet printer connected, working, and producing a test page was completed with about four mouse clicks.
If you want an OS that's easy to install and set up (on a virgin drive, single boot, I reckon I'd have had it done in about 15 mins), that gives you browser and a basic, functional PC with virtually zero effort, I can heartily recommend it.
In an earlier thread on here, someone mentioned that they'd dismissed Linux because they wanted a new OS, not a project. That is exactly how I felt until I tried this.
Give it a go, you'll be surprised.
Cheers
DP
Last edited by: DP on Sat 9 Oct 10 at 23:43
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