Hey guys. I know you probably answer this question about 50 times a day, but I'll ask it anyway. With my current configuration, what would be the best performing and most like Windows distro that I could use. I'm concerned about ease of use, since a few years back I had a machine that ran Linux, and it was rather complicated. Please help, so that I can get rid of MS's awful Windows Me. Thanks alot, Mike

ME does suck, doesn't it? I'm running Red Hat 7.2. I, being a newbie, really couldn't recommend anything other than Red Hat as thats all I've tried, other than a brief stint with a Slackware distro (dragonlinux that ran on windows partition). Look at the different sites. Just to name a few... http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ http://www.redhat.com http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.suse.com/index_us.html i'm sure this won't help at all, but there you go :)

Personally, I like Red Hat 8.0 and SuSE 8.1

Speaking as a fellow newbie, Mandrake 9.0 all the way baby! I tried RH 8.x, but had problem getting my generic PCI soundcard to work. Finally gave up and started over with Mandrake. It puts Windows to shame as far as ease of installation. Had a system running from scratch in 30 minutes . . . and that includes connecting to my shared cable modem. ken

RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, or SuSE 8.1, they are all good. It doesn't require much to set them up and once they are up, they run like a solid rock. You will never go back to Windows, especially Window (OH) ME again... Lawrence

Mandrake 9.0 is probably the best bet if you have a printer you want working with Linux. Other than that, there isn't much to tell them apart.

I've been useing redhat 8 for about 2 weeks now seems to be working fine...when its not working it ususlly my fault...anyway i like redhat 8 of course its confusing at first(any new os that you have never used would be) But i stuck with it and now i almost never boot my xp pro....