With the Eee PC and the OLPC initiative, Linux has been so far the star of 2008. The only issue with Linux is the number of distributions flying around the place. I have tried the main distros of http://distrowatch.com in the recent months and they all left me very disappointed.
Let me explain. I am coming from XP through Mac OS X. Although I want the freedom and the cool tux wallpaper, I also want everything to work out of the box. I am not a technie and I do not intend to be a techie. If linux cannot provide this, it has no chance of ever denting the MS dominance on home pc.
My top priorities are: -
1. Everything out of the box including wireless. I do not want to hear about ndiswrapper. Ever. I just want WLAN to work
2. Stable. Forget bleeding edge, I am an end user, not a developper
3. Support. I do not want some forum techie to go into serbo-croatian mode when I ask a newbie question
4. KDE. I guess this is personal choice.
I finally found a distribution which matched all this. No, it is not Kubuntu, PCLinuxOS or OpenSuse, it is Pardus.
Works great, looks good, friendly forum, I can't believe this distro is not higher on the top 100. Give it a spin, really, you won't regret it.
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