But Puppy is not for serious every day desktop use. It is more for
live CD or usb use.It constrains to user and that is okay if you are
running old hardware. It you want a full desktop experience Puppy is
not for you. It is like Windows 98 vs Windows 7. Not many people want
to run W98 if they can run W7. This is not sell Puppy short. It is
fantastic at what it does. It just is not for everybody for everyday
use.
Look at Distrowatch. Consider any of the top 10 minus Arch (unless you
are very advanced) and perhaps not Fedora and Debian (which are for
middle to advanced users). Consider Puppy only if you want to run on
older hardware or from a usb stick. It does not give you a typical
Linux desktop experience. Also look farther down the list for anything
ending in untu. They are versions of Ubuntu which is in the top ten,
but have a different interface. Also consider MEPIS, aptosid, and
Pear. If you want to try a good rpm distro try PCLinuxOS or if you
want to try Fedora (Red Hat's experimental/ desktop version) but are
put off by its advanced features then you can try Kororaa or Fuduntu.
The good news is that you can try Linux by downloading any ISO and
burning it to disk or use Unetbootin (it can actually download the iso
for you) to make a bootable usb stick. It runs from Windows or Linux.
You can also install any of the Ubuntu based distros inside Windows
using WUBI which is available from their site or on any of the CDs or
DVDs created above when you insert the disk while in Windows.
Some links to get you started:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer
http://distrowatch.com/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
Try Ubuntu online: http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/#
http://www.edubuntu.org/weblive
http://getgnulinux.org/en/switch_to_linux/
This is a client that you can run to download Linux:
http://getlinux.sourceforge.net/
Roy
Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada
On 11 January 2012 08:07, dvdpst <dvdposton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Puppy has got to be the most user friendly I think. I think it has all the
> codex any one would neeed.
>
> david
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> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Joan Leach <jleach728@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
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>> distrowatch.com has links, screenshots and reviews. If it wasn't Uuntu or
>> Mint, could it be Puppy or PcLinuxOS?
>>
>> Joan in Reno
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>> --- On Tue, 1/10/12, papasmurf <papa.smurf5@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
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>> From: papasmurf <papa.smurf5@myfairpoint.net>
>> Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Newbie seeking info
>> To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 2:23 PM
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>> Can someone please post a few web addresses, where I can read about the
>> various, most popular, user-friendly versions of Linux and choose which I'd
>> prefer? Looked into Linux quite awhile back but serious illness in my
>> family prevented me from doing any more. Remember one version, which I was
>> really interested in but cannot remember it's name[was not ubuntu/kubuntu].
>> Thank You in advance for any assistance. Please Pray for our son Mike, who
>> is on Afgan deployment list[already served in Iraq].... Tom in NH
>>
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