The links below point to various stages of an experiment concerning a woman (Windows User) married to a Linux user who reluctantly agreed an experiment to try several Distros. What she wanted was something that did all the right things out of the box. Add software? Update software? Hack this and that? Something maybe to learn later. But for now it had to make the right intial impressions.

Here is her review of Ubuntu

Here is her review of Fedora Core

Here is her review of PCLinuxOS

(and while you're there click on 6th and 16th March also!)

Simply Mepis

Mandrake 10.1CE

And the winner is...

Well read them yourself!!!!

I've been following this since it started. I find it a great experiment and experience of the average Windows user!

Just to say that PCLOS is temporarily off my computer and I'm relying on my Gentoo partition whilst experimenting on the spare one, at present I have Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 on it.

It won't recognise the internet connection, for some reason even though it is set up correctly. It has also set up networks I don't have. There are so many little niggles.

The only good thing I can say is that it has backported the KDE3.4 version of KDM, meaning a nicer login screen.

But why has Daffy Duck started taking LSD?

The idea was that PCLOS would return once version pre_9 hit the mirrors but I'm not sure I can wait much longer, even though Gentoo is so nice!

There is now a roundup page for the experiment at:

http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/arc...005/05/05.html

There is also a recent entry from Mr Devnet about some of the abuse aimed at her from fans of the distros she did not like. Some of it is a bit nasty! See it here:

http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/arc...Unfounded.html

At the end of the day, however, I have to say that what she did was about determining a suitable Linux distro for a particular type of user!

BTW Mandrake/iva has gone and PCLOS is back on my spare partition. It was just too unbearable. I have also used Partition Image on the PCLOS live CD to make a copy of my PCLOS partition so that should I b0rk it again, I'll have it back up in 7-8 minutes!

I have not read every one of the reviews, but so far I can say this

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been looking for something like this for a while, trying to convert the wife, and have just found what I was looking for! Thanks davecs!

For some reason, the Roundup page has been moved here:

http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/arc...005/05/05.html

BRU - if you or Mrs BRU are using PCLOS, the forum is at

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules...ums&file=index

The final result of this experiment can be seen here:

http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/arc...d-to-Head.html

And the winner is... well follow the link!