You just about can, these days. XandrOS and the Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu cluster, among others, are particularly user-friendly. It's not like it was four years ago when I first played around with SuSE.
Still takes a little work to get things set up, and one has to pay attention to things like only using peripherals which have Linux drivers written for them, and finding the proper codecs for multimedia files, and work-arounds for things like shockwave. There are still programmes that have no Linux equivalents, that's why there's WINE; but I cannot get Mobipocket Creator to run under WINE, so I still keep my old Winbox.
If you have enough room on your harddrive you could dual-boot while you got used to it. Were I in Ottawa I could set up XandrOS in a partition on your harddrive inside an hour.
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Date: 2007-07-01 02:54 pm (UTC)Still takes a little work to get things set up, and one has to pay attention to things like only using peripherals which have Linux drivers written for them, and finding the proper codecs for multimedia files, and work-arounds for things like shockwave. There are still programmes that have no Linux equivalents, that's why there's WINE; but I cannot get Mobipocket Creator to run under WINE, so I still keep my old Winbox.
If you have enough room on your harddrive you could dual-boot while you got used to it. Were I in Ottawa I could set up XandrOS in a partition on your harddrive inside an hour.