And, in response to the title (why microsoft and not Red Hat), most people don't know about Red Hat. Besides, Red Hat's kinda expensive (>$100), even if they do give you support.
On 4/17/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kelly wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:45 pm Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> My personal feelings are that FC would be a poor choice for your
>> average home user, especially one that is migrating from an older
>> version of Windows. (98)
>
> Okay, seriously then, what distro would be a good choice for the average home
> user? I'm trying to answer that question myself, while searching for good
> distros for my younger brothers to run; they both have some computer
> experience, but only with Windows, and I have a personal thing against
> Debian-based distros after the time that three different Debian/Ubuntu
> installs failed in the same way within a week. Any suggestions?
Ubuntu is really making an effort, so I wouldn't hold earlier failure
against them. The 7.04 desktop release sounds promising if you aren't
tied to RedHat-style administration:
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntudesktop704
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