> Daily tasks: email, word processing, web surfing etc. > Entertainment: iTunes, video, mp3 etc. > > However all of these tasks can easily done using any modern linux > distribution. Unless it's changed, FC does not provide mp3 support out of the box, nor does it provide NTFS read support out of the box. And installing browser plugins isn't quite as easy as Windows in all cases (some yes, some no - but I don't believe that part is unique to FC, but rather applies to all Linux distros). As for iTunes, you can run it on MAC or Windows, but not Linux (don't know if the MAC version would be hackable to run on Linux, but not something you'd want your newbie to have to deal with certainly). Trying to play your favorite mp3s or surf a web site needing plugins that require manual install can kill the enthousiasm pretty quickly for a non-technical newbie. So if the distro does not provide support for a required feature, unless it can be easily installed I would look at a different distro. In other words if FC still does not support mp3s and that is important to your friends, I'd be inclined to look to another distro unless you know of an easy way to install mp3 support. Jacques B.
