That will turn off many people if they want a Windows replacement. It will
look like a toy compared to Windows. Puppy is fast and simple but it is not
representative of a full installation of a good distro.
I urge people to try a full distro on a live CD or DVD or USB. For just a
little bit more time they get all the bells and whistles. They are more
likely to be wowed when they see they have Firefox and Thunderbird plus
Libreoffice than if they see something basic and not as well done. If they
ask for speed and don't care about appearance then I would direct them to
Puppy.
Roy
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On Jan 11, 2012 1:26 PM, "dvdpst" <dvdposton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Roy, I tell people that wants to try linux WITH OUT installing it to try
> Puppy first. If they want more I tell them
> to go with Ubuntu. But you have to agree, Puppy is the easiest to use to
> see what linux is. Puppy 5.28 is base on Ubuntu 10.10.
> I tell any one that Puppy does not represent what Linux can do. But it does
> do enough to see if you would like it or not
> and want some thing more powerful. I had one person to tell me all they was
> looking for was some thing to
> go online and to read email.Now Puppy is great for that as wi-fi is easy to
> set up.
>
> david
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Joan Leach <jleach728@sbcglobal.net
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> **
> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> distrowatch.com has links, screenshots and reviews. If it wasn't
> Uuntu
> > or
> > >> Mint, could it be Puppy or PcLinuxOS?
> > >>
> > >> Joan in Reno
> > >>
> > >> --- On Tue, 1/10/12, papasmurf <papa.smurf5@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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