Linked by Barry Smith on Wed 26th Nov 2003 18:11 UTC
It seems to me that a lot of attention lately in the commercial Linux development area has concentrated on either large enterprise customers, or wooing the home user who can barely turn a computer on. Even distros claiming to offer the perfect solution for both ends of the spectrum don't quite seem to fit what I am looking for. 
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Rest assured, Xandros will have its fair chance. I am awaiting the 2.0 package going out on the 9th of next month, just like you guys. So far my list of candidates includes Lindows, Libranet, and Xandros. I am more than willing to include any other debian based commercial distros that the readers might request or recommend. I am pretty well determined about debian, and I want a commercial distro with commercial tech support, just in case.
Another post:
"I'd like to see the list of applications that a technical writer and a mainstream desktop user (not programmer, not sysadmin) uses on daily basis. This would give me, and perhaps some others, a better idea of what the notorious phrase 'Linux on the desktop' actually means."
For the writing, almost any word processor will do. I wrote that particular article in gedit under Libranet (I am using it now in preparation for the next article). Which word processor depends on the size of the project and how elaborate the page formatting and graphics need to be. For general use, including charts, etc. I have have not seen any job that OpenOffice can't handle for me.
I have been forced into using FrontPage for some web work, simply because Mozilla Composer is not quite sophisticated enough. And yes, that is about the extent of my web designing. If I need scripts I either download stock ones or I get a programmer friend to write them for me. I do not code, nor will I if it can be avoided. HTML is not difficult at all, but I hate doing it. Please don't even talk to me about anything more deeply involved than simple HTML. I know I could adapt to more elaborate web work, but I don't wanna.
For technical illustrations I have switched over to QCad. In a former life I was using AutoCAD and Microstation, but I no longer need that much raw horsepower. QCad gets it done for me.
I bought a copy of the first release of Codeweavers during my transition, but I no longer use wine much at all. Only rarely for PaintShop or Adobe. Lately I have been trying to adapt to GIMP, which is a nice little program indeed, but it is counter-intuitive to me. Don't know exactly why, it just is.
I don't need wine much otherwise. I also subscribed to Winex for a while, but then I learned how to get winex directly off cvs. But I don't run any windows games on this system anymore either. If I need to unwind I sometimes open up Tuxracer or Q3.
I do use gaim to keep in touch with family and friends. I also like to play music while I work. I have a DVD drive, but I never watch movies on my computer. I go to the living room and hit the recliner for movies.
I use KDE because it fits my work style. I use K3B for CD-RW burning because it works.
That's about it.
Barry