Ubuntu!

[kgoings]

Originally Posted by totallytentative

Sigh.... I'll have to go back and read this thread more closely to see what people are running these days.

A couple years ago I was tinkering with Puppy and PCLOS (which was brand new back then) in an attempt to get a FREE, easy to use OS for a computer I built for my father. After a lot of hair pulling and wasted hours I had to blow it all away and install Win XP when I finally realized one day I was starting to read things about the deep inner workings of how Linux talks to hardware, which was totally the opposite of the experience I wanted!

The deal breaker was that neither OS would emit a peep of sound no matter what I did (other than installing XP).

I want to give Linux another shot, but my past experience has left me gun-shy. I have a spare SFF PC lying around that I'd like to use, but no OS for it....

Try Ubuntu, if you want to check out what's all the rage and read up on what is out there check out http://www.distrowatch.com

Originally Posted by kgoings

Try Ubuntu, if you want to check out what's all the rage and read up on what is out there check out http://www.distrowatch.com

Thanks for the link. I was struggling trying to remember what that site was called.

I'll have to read up on Ubuntu sometime... I vaguely recall being weirded out a bit by all the different "flavors" of "-ubuntu" that are out there.

[kgoings]

Originally Posted by totallytentative

Thanks for the link. I was struggling trying to remember what that site was called.

I'll have to read up on Ubuntu sometime... I vaguely recall being weirded out a bit by all the different "flavors" of "-ubuntu" that are out there.

Yea just get the regular version.