Greetings.
I have had two linux desktops over the last two years. SuSE Ent10 on a notebook and Mint on a desktop.
The SuSE was a pain to do anything.
The Mint was fairly simple to “just use”. Unfortunately I broke that system when I knocked the monitor off the table while it was on AND connected to the system. The monitor works, but it must have trashed the MB. 🙁 [i](oops!)[/i]
Looking to try a new distro or two, as I will be setting up three systems (one for me, and one for each of my boys).
The hardware will be in the 2.4ghrz area, and between 512 and 1gig of ram, depending on what I can pull together.
[b]System usage.[/b]
The boys do mostly MySpace and Facebook, with lots of Instant messenging thrown in. We had been using Pidgon, but it had stopped working with Yahoo (not sure if that has been resolved or not yet).
The ability to view videos (youtube) is a must.
Of course OpenOffice will be installed. For the purpose of being able to do homework assignments, I would love to be able to also load MS Office07 too. (Wine?)
Ripping and playing MP3’s, as well as burning CD’s would of course be required as well.
Thanks for any feedback on what you have liked as well as what you have not liked (and why).
jd
