> was thinking about Corel, supposedly very newbie oriented. Any
> experience out there with it?
Corel is aimed straight at the desktop, so it's applicable. I have to
wonder though, what is "library use?" If you mean browing the web and
office suite work, yes, Corel's just what you're looking for.
One "gotcha" would be that the free version of Corel doesn't have
WordPerfect or StarOffice included with it (it would mean a separate
download/install). If you go with one of Corel's commercial packages, it,
of course, includes various strains of WordPerfect and possibly phone
support.
Corel has IMHO the easiest installation of any GNU/Linux. It's
mindlessly simple to get a working desktop on the vast majority of
machines. Of course, in the case of something odd hardware-wise, you're
back to having to know how to fix things.
Corel has had a security glitch or two, but since Corel is Debian-based,
they're using Debian's packaging scheme. To grab the latest, greatest
updates is simply a matter of running either the Debian text-mode
dselect/apt-get program, or to use Corel's GUI update manager (which would
be Corel's preferred way). A few mouse clicks later you're updated to the
latest stuff.
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