Which Linux version is good for a windows user ?

colinvespa

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Hello Chaps all,

I am thinking of either dual booting or going full time later so I can use Linux and have a good and see if it works for me, main thing I need is near enough window familiarity, able to use media files I suppose VLC covers most of them, also most importantly a much lower risk from virus infections.

Can you still put password entry control same as a window ?

Any recommendations ?

If I like the new system I may convert one of my lap top to it full time. :)


Thanks all in advance
 
colinvespa said:
Hello Chaps all,

I am thinking of either dual booting or going full time later so I can use Linux and have a good and see if it works for me, main thing I need is near enough window familiarity, able to use media files I suppose VLC covers most of them, also most importantly a much lower risk from virus infections.

Can you still put password entry control same as a window ?

Any recommendations ?

If I like the new system I may convert one of my lap top to it full time. :)
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Linux mint or pc linux OS probably. There are multiple interfaces for linux though so even if you went with a standard flavor like ubuntu you could customize it to look a lot more like windows than it does out of the box.
Thanks all in advance
 
Just tried to install it Linux mint, it didn't really go beyond the initial page, I tried Unbuntu and it said that the PAE kernal is missing and couldn't continue with the installation.

could it be that my PC is not powerful enough and too old ?

I have a Fujitsu Siemans PC running (to add this is a laptop)
XP professional vers 2002 SP3
Intel(R) Pentium(R)M 1.6 GHZ
I also have 21.3 GB of free space to install a partition more than plenty.

Any advice please ?
 
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If your machine is a lil older take a look at crunchbag linux.

It uses the OpenBox window manager, which looks and behaves nothing like windows to be honest. It is easy to get the hang of though, and when you are ready to start customising it, with just a bash start-up script and a couple of xml files it can become very powerful and personalised. It was my window manager of choice until I discovered tiling managers.
 
I haven't touched Linux before so this is the best place to ask, I have always been of the opinion that there is no such thing as a stupid question, I did wonder if xubuntu has a fixed background, this is not the case as confirmed by one of the posters.

Anyway back to the story, I have installed the xubuntu with no major problems, partitioned the drive, had dabble, it doesn't seem to like fixed internet line however no problems with wireless, maybe some configuring needed there ?

This has firefox built in as a browser, noticed there is no support for FLV codecs, for sites like youtube.com and various other sites using flash player.Is there a way round that and is there any easy to read xubuntu tutorials about by any chance. bit like a DK Book if you know what I mean.

Thanks for your help so far it has been really useful, please keep them coming.....
 
Thanks had a bash at that, adobe didn't seem to work, Gnash SWF worked fine so far, I am starting to get into this Linux thing, there are challenges, there is very little mainstream support for Linux,noticed Adobe have said they have stopped support for Linux platform.

I have to admit there was so many different varieties of Linux that it can be hard to choose, Xubuntu while not my first choice seemed to work fine with my oldish laptop as it doesn't have any PAE, the desktop does take some getting used to..
 
Just have a play about with it :) best way to learn.

Ignore Adobe's lack of Linux support, flash is a dying product imho. HTML5 is taking over and Adobe don't support mobile flash any more either.

Don't be to frightened to edit config files. There is no equivilent of the windows registry so almost everything is configured in human readable text files.

If you open a terminal and run "ls -A" (no quotes), the files starting with a dot are configuration files, you can readily change these as they only affect the current user, not the system as a whole. Simply keep backups incase you break something or dont like a change.
 
Again, echoing the sentiments here of Linux Mint being a great Linux distro for Windows people wanting to check Linux out. ubuntu as well is always worth a look in.
 
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