Hi :) That sounds the perfect way to try it. Tim (Webmaster at Kracked Press) made a good point about trying LiveCds to just test-drive various distros. Trying a few is really ideal.
Ubuntu might be a good one to start with but it is designed to be comparable with the latest Windows so it is often more heavy and bloated than other distros. Fedora is quite good because it also tries to be quite plug&play but it's often the experimental cutting-edge and used as the test-bed for trying apps ahead of other distros (well, ahead of Redhat at least). Anyway the best thing is to try a few distros to see what works best for you on your machine and then install it. All distros cover the middle-ground and a wide-spread of different machines but each distro seems slightly better at certain wacky combinations of real-world machines. Does anyone really have a 'typical' machine in a 'normal' set-up?? I really wish Windows had an equivalent of the LiveCd session that almost every distro seems to have these days. I think if i did internet banking i would want to always do it from a LiveCd and thus leave no trace of it on which-ever machine. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 24/7/12, Chaim Seymour <chaim.seym...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Chaim Seymour <chaim.seym...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 24 July, 2012, 14:02 Hi I can offer another option, which I find very satisfactory. My previous laptop had windows vista and was unsatisfactory. When I bought a new computer (with Windows 7), I formatted the disk on the old computer and installed Linux. I tried 2 or 3 different linux packages and since my computer was weak, I settled for Fedora which seems to use less resources than Ubuntu. The computer used to get very hot with Vista, but behaves much better with Linux. I use both laptops in parallel, but tend to use the Linux more. Chaim On 24 July 2012 12:36, Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:41:59 -0400 webmaster-Kracked_P_P > <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > > Anyone who really wants to learn how to use Linux as a replacement > > for Windows, try dual booting a system if you do not have a spare one > > to try Linux with as its only OS. > > > G'day. > > > The other option for the odd trip back to windows is virtualisation. > Mostly, you can tell the system to let windows use a device as if you > had booted into windows > > Regards > > > Keith Bainbridge > PO Box 324 > BELMONT Vic 3216 Australia > +61 (0)408 522 706 > > keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Chaim Seymour David Elazar 8 Givat Shemuel 54032 Israel tel: 972-3-5320560 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
