
As a system administrator, I have used Windows on the desktop since 2.0 and used to run Windows XP at home for my family. I use Linux and Windows servers at work and prefer (Red Hat) Linux for its security, stability and usefulness in a company with a diminishing IT budget. More than a year ago I started experimenting with Linux as a desktop solution and after installing and using more than 7 different distros along with many various versions of those distros, I found a distro that is doing everything its suppose to do, right out of the box. I'm talking about the pleasantly suprising
Lindows 4.0.
Pros :: Auto-hardware detection, User-friendlyness. Cons :: Not Free (costly), Limited Software, Limited Choise, Not Open source. I think Overall Lindows is absoulty a Con, It utilizes Linux, But it takes its morals and ethics from Windows. I think any User (except grandmas:-) can instead choose distributions like Mandrake, Onebase Linux (http://www.onebase-linux.org) which is as also Easy and follows the True ethics of Linux. But it requires a Little Interest ;-)