I've been very happy with Mdk 10 on my desktop machine, once I got a few initial problems (e.g. sound) ironed out. In fact, none of my semi-computer-literate friends and family have had the slightest difficulty using Linux instead of Windoze for day to day tasks (email, word processing, ...), even though they've never even heard of Linux or even Unix.
So I decided to take the plunge and install it on my old Dell laptop (an Inspiron 3800). The Win98 on it was thoroughly broken, and I refused to re-install it, so I backed up the few important files on there and toasted it. Actually my 13 year old son did it, with just a few pointers. Install went smoother than on my desktop! It even recognized some laptop weirdness, like the soundcard doubling as modem. Suspend even seems to work (hasn't worked on Win98 in over a year - used to hang occasionally, and the patch from M$ for this just destroyed suspend capability completely; if you closed the cover everything stayed on and the machine overheated). Just one obvious problem so far: the whole desktop is shifted up about the height of the task bar, leaving a grey line across the bottom of the screen, and chopping the top off. Anyone know how to adjust this? -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL.
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