I was recently playing again with some more Linux distros.
PinguyOS, which is based on Ubuntu, is very good out of the box distro. You can run it from live CD or from USB.
The flash support is built in and YouTube videos open fine.
But it has a big drawback - you can use persistent storage feature. Even though it exists in theory I could not make it work!
That's why I still can't praise it enough.
One reason why typical Windows users will be willing to use Linux is they want to play with a different OS.
For them, being able to boot from USB and save settings and other data is important. Also flash support etc. should be very easy to set up.
If possible, USB disk should be accessible from Windows system (with SuSE, Windows could not read the drive).
The distro should also come with common packages Open Office, although it is not that imporant as web based office apps are quite handy nowadays.
I tried EasyPeasy Linux and didn't really like the interface.
Lately I also poked around SuSE 11.3 It now has persistence feature created on the fly at first reboot. It's interface is eye catching. But some useful apps are not put into shortcuts by default! It froze once during my brief testing.
So, at the end, my Linux distro favorites still remain the same - Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSE (in that order).
PinguyOS, which is based on Ubuntu, is very good out of the box distro. You can run it from live CD or from USB.
The flash support is built in and YouTube videos open fine.
But it has a big drawback - you can use persistent storage feature. Even though it exists in theory I could not make it work!
That's why I still can't praise it enough.
One reason why typical Windows users will be willing to use Linux is they want to play with a different OS.
For them, being able to boot from USB and save settings and other data is important. Also flash support etc. should be very easy to set up.
If possible, USB disk should be accessible from Windows system (with SuSE, Windows could not read the drive).
The distro should also come with common packages Open Office, although it is not that imporant as web based office apps are quite handy nowadays.
I tried EasyPeasy Linux and didn't really like the interface.
Lately I also poked around SuSE 11.3 It now has persistence feature created on the fly at first reboot. It's interface is eye catching. But some useful apps are not put into shortcuts by default! It froze once during my brief testing.
So, at the end, my Linux distro favorites still remain the same - Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSE (in that order).
