I am an WIN XP USER. I recently partitioned my HD and put Lindows OS 4.0 on the computer. I noticed it some problems finding some stuff, but it was easy to use because of the click and run. (I don't like having to pay for click and run---I think that is not a good feature!!)

I then decided to put Red Hat 9.0 on my computer. My friend bought it and gave it to me. I have all original CD's. I loaded it and all I have is trouble.

First, my sound card doesn't work. "I have to put ALSA on the computer"...Pain in the A$$. I can't figure it out!!! Total pain with a total waste of time.

IT doesn't detect everything!

Just to put LimeWire on is a total pain and everything has to be entered in the Terminal Bash Shell.
Just to get limeWire started I had to install Java VM. NOT a walk in the park!
At least with CNR with LindowsOS, I was able to load LimeWire in GUI style and not have to waste hours learning run commands of linux to use in the terminal. Everytime I have to do something it has to go through the shell, never just a click away.


So my long drawn out question is this. What OS should I go with now? I am looking for something that is supported (Like Windows, but absolutly not Windows) and I can download UP2DATES with. I want a version of Linux that all I have to do is download a program and open it up and click "Install" and thats it. Please weight in and let me know. Thank you.

What is the reason you are transitioning to Linux? Not many Linux distros are point-click and play. You will have dependency issues on some packages and not everything is going to be a walk in the park especially if any of you hardware is not standard. Now dont get me wrong Linux is a great OS imho and I use it but it just sounds like you want a "Windows" Linux and that doesnt exist. Anyway I say try maybe running Kannopix: see if everything is detected @ least because it has one of the best detection schemes I've seen -- if it finds it in Kannopix then @ least you know there is a way to make another distro see it as well -- though it may not be automatic.

Then try Suse I suppose for a desktop OS, or maybe Mandrake they are both easy to setup and fairly self configuring.

SUSE 9.1 just came out recently. I was thinking of buying that since it may be a little easier to use. Is this true??

Is SUSE 9.1 the way to go?? Is it more "User friendly" then Red Hat9.0? Is there updates for it?? Is everything I download going to be a pain in the Butt??... Do I need the shell everytime I want to run a program? For example, I really have nothing on my computer expect for LimeWire. When I run it, I need to go to the shell, do <CD /LimeWire>, then <sh runLime.sh>. It like there is not icon to just click. But on my WinXP there is an Icon to just click. Also when I had the Lindows Distrabution on the computer, there was an Icon for it. Plus my sound card worked under Lindows. Is SUSE 9.1 the answer to my questions and problems??

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