Is Linspire still supposed to be the easiest distro for an entrenched Windows user to transition to? Do they have a live CD?
My Dad is still running 98, and he's having the normal accumulation of problems that 98 develops over time. He's thinking of "upgrading" to XP, and I'd like to show him a better way.
More important than compatibility with Windows software, I think, would be something that worked smoothly without a lot of patching and updating. That might bring him over, especially on a Live CD.
(Evangelisim is wasted here - if he has to work too hard to do it the "right" way, he won't.)
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:56:46PM -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
Is Linspire still supposed to be the easiest distro for an entrenched Windows user to transition to? Do they have a live CD?
I have a Linspire 4.5 CD, but I haven't installed it yet. I've heard it sets everything up good. They do have a LiveCD.
I know Knoppix has a way to store your home directory and settings (including networking) on a USB flash drive. That might work well.
If I was going to start someone out with Linux, I'd give them a SuSE cd. I used it for all of about an hour, but it was the easiest to install, and seemed very nice to work with.
Of course, you could ssh back into his machine and take care of updates, and such monthly or whenever.
Jeremy
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