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I don't know why, but I recently got restless and decided to change my distro. Since I haven't posted in a while, I'll give a bit of background: *First failed attempt:* Debian GNU/Linux Woody. Failed to get graphics driver to work. *First Distro:* Mandrake (can't remember which version). I liked it, but didn't manage to set it up as well as I'd have liked. *Second Distro:* SuSE. (again, no idea of version). Success, even got my girlfriend at the time (a technophobe) to use it instead of windows for everything except playing worms (the only game she played). *Third Distro:* Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. Old SuSE PC was left with old girlfriend. Had some problems with sound at first, but thanks to help on this list I got it to work. Slowly learned my way around command line. Now when I am in work and have to use a dos prompt, I often find myself typing ls backspace backspace dir! This distro served me well for what must be over two years? Main programs used KDE desktop (I kind of prefered GNOME in many ways, but had problems getting kmail to work unless I used KDE), kmail, konqueror, firefox, kate, kedit, gimp, kooka. Had problems getting mike to work for skype, although earphones worked fine. Mike volume seemed greyed out in master volume controls. *LATEST DISTRO* Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn. Backed up important files and installed it over the old debian instalation. Not necessarilly planning to stay with Ubuntu but thought I'd take a look because I felt like it. Impressed. Installation was simpler than installing most windows applications, only thing that would through a non-techie would be the drive formatting bit, but I'm guessing that only a techie would attempt to create a dual boot system anyway, so a non techie would probably just stick with the default options. Sound worked straight off too. Didn't like Evolution much. Replaced it with Thunderbird. Managed to configure Thunderbird the way I like email progs set up (like kmail). I used to use konqueror for ftp. I now use the FireFTP plugin for FireFox. Far superior anyway. I used to use kate to edit php pages. After experimenting with screem, gphpedit and gedit, I have found that gedit is by far my favourite. GIMP pre-installed. Oh, and I bought a LAN HDD to facilitate the sharing of files between winxp, linux and the apple laptop I plan to buy. Setting up the smb shares in nautilus was a simple matter. I should probably set up a script to mount them so they are accessible from the command line and in applications, but I haven't got around to that yet. Still, it doesn't worry me. I'll probably stay with this distro for now. It meets my needs in a rather unobtrusive way, and I have adapted to using GNOME apps pretty well. Anton -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html