I am looking to move to open source for the better security and no more MS BS for my home computer. This will be used by my wife and eventually my 3 kids. I have not used it in at least 7 years for a desktop and can’t remember what all I used. I was frustrated with it at the time due to the differences and abandoned the idea since I found it unusable for that purpose.
I do use it at work everyday, but they are servers and I mostly use SSH to get in. I read a lot about how much it has changed for home usability and would like opinions on the best for home as far as interface. I am not a guru on nix, but I can get around and work with my specific configs at work.
Anything I move to would have to have clear documentation. I would need an office suite of course which can easily be satisfied with OpenOffice, but I also need to edit music, videos, pics, and web design. I also need to keep disk images for backups, work with MP3 Player and IPod, and DVD/CD burning.
If I can get all of this from a usable nix interface, i will gladly dump MS. Any opinions are greatly appreciated.
