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Originally Posted by phil the dill
Ok, it seems that I made misunderstood the focus of this forum. It appears to be for the purpose of addressing specific problems with specific distributions, whereas I was trying to find a distribution that met my criteria - easy install with good hardware support for the devices I mentioned at the start of this post, no manual editing of config files (ever) and little or no need to use the command line interface. This is what I have been getting since I started using Windows 2000 many years ago.
Despite the perception that I am just Linux-bashing, I do want to find an alternative to Windows - it's just that I want an alternative that can do in 2008 what Windows could do in 2000. I don't see how that's unreasonable. Please, if this isn't possible in Linux, just say so. I don't care what the reasons are, whether it's lack of driver support, or you don't want Linux to be that sort of operating system, or whatever, I am only interested in practical outcomes. I couldn't care less about the ideology.
If there is a Linux distro that will do this, then point me to it and I will gladly use it and promote it. Please. If there is a more appropriate forum in which to ask this question, then please let me know where.
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Try PCLinuxOS.
But again, I'm stating the obvious.
You're asking something like whether it's good to eat fruits and veggies - we keep saying yes - but then want all the nutritional benefits of eating fruit in a chocolate cake - which is simply not possible. So if you want chocolate cake, eat chocolate cake and avoid leading to a circular discussion.
Almost always when you finish installing you'll require
some manual configuration on Linux (tweaking) because some of the issues like hardware support are not distribution-specific and then you'll come back here and complain that it doesn't work out of the box.
Either blame the hardware vendors for not releasing their specifications openly, use a solution provided here or write your own device drivers. It's your choice.
