OT: suggested Linus distro for the in-laws

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Boaz Bezborodko" <boaz at mirrotek.com>

> My in-laws have an 7-year-old computer running Windows XP and I wanted
> to upgrade it to something that will be updated regularly. They only use
> it for email, browser, and OpenOffice. Windows 8 seems excessively
> complex and I don't know what it will do to their machine's performance
> so I was thinking of putting on a Linux distro for them.
> 
> Any suggestions on something that is easy to use?

I used to be a SuSE guy, it with KDE3 was the closest to Windows XP you could
get.

But the Release Configuration Managers at SuSE have had a brain tumor, and
I can't even recommend it for business use anymore.  I'm about to redo my
laptop, and I'm strongly considering Linux Mint, which has good reviews;
I liked a version of it I used about 5 years ago, but I haven't yet installed 
it.

Uses its own package management system, so you will need to make sure it has
builds for anything they want.

Cheers,
-- jra
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