Hi,

3 major distros that are commonly referred
to as, "user friendly" are Mandrake, Red Hat
and SuSE.

I use Mandrake. It has lots of GUI tools for
handling system configuration.

As for ease of install, after you've installed your
new hard drive, you can just pop the CD in the drive
while running Windows. It will autorun and should
walk you through the whole process. Alternately,
if you can wait till the end of September, you could
come to our upcoming install-fest and one of our
friendly volunteers will give you a hand.

Bob

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Taliesin MacAran wrote:

>
> Hi, I am considering installing Linux on my computer (as soon as I can get a
> new hard drive).
> It will have to be a dual boot type of system as there are some windows
> programs that I'd rather keep using.
>
> I had installed RedHat 7.1 once but it somehow got messed up to the point
> that I couldn't use it. (User error)
>
> What I want to know is what is the easiest version of Linux to install that
> is also easy to use?
> I plan on using X-Windows as I don't like just using the console.
>
> Please don't get technical since I wouldn't understand most of it anyway.
>
> I also need a good website for weather programs for Linux so I can see if I
> can find something similar
> to the Windows program I currently use. (InterWarn)
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Taliesin MacAran
> Phoenix, Az.
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