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I'm considering installing Linux on my home PC, which is essentially my wife's PC. She really only uses for Web Browsing, Email (via a Web Interface), for our family photos (Picasa is what she currently uses). If I were to get her on the Linux Bandwagon, what distribution do you recommend? We have Athlon Dual Core machine with 6 gigs of RAM and a 500 MB hard drive. I'm currently leaning towards the following:
I've heard StudioUbuntu is good as well which may be the logical course based on her current use.
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PCLinuxOS, Mandriva, OpenSuSe, Mint BTW Picasa works in Linux. Picasa does not require wine to be installed, it is built in. You can use the Google repository to install, Chrome,Picasa 3.0 and Google-Desktop. There are two repositories 'stable' and 'testing'. http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html
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I'm not overly crazy about installing wine just for Picasa but will consider it.
(19 Jul '10, 19:16)
Andy
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I would strongly recommend Linux Mint 9 (standard Gnome edition), however, PCLinuxOS is also a great choice. Both these two distros are ready to go. I advise against Fedora while Mint is really a more ready to go version of Ubuntu with features such as mp3 & flash playback already installed. Mint has all the advantages of Ubuntu being fully compatible but done of the disadvantages - the green (minty) desktop is easily changed if this is not to your liking. PCLinuxOs is particularly nice although I give Mint the edge but I admit this is purely my choice and I am happy to accept those who'd recommend PCLinuxOS over Mint. Try both! Mandriva is recommended by some but I give PCLinuxOs my vote ahead. I am surprised you narrowed down to Fedora - advise avoid.
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Studio is good, but not ideal for this particular case. Linux Mint is the way to go.
In the end, decided to go with Linux Mint.