Linked by Phil Hall on Thu 5th Dec 2002 00:35 UTC
I'm a long-time Windows user, but for years I've been searching for an intelligent alternative. Macs are actually a great choice, but have you priced them lately? I don't have two grand to spend for another system. I had been reading all the hoopla surrounding Xandros Desktop for a number of months and decided to take the plunge. I had been burned two times previously trying to install other Linux distributions. Their tech support was non-existent. I'm essentially working in a vacuum. When something has gone wrong in the past, I've found that I was on my own. 
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>>The fact that you can run any Windows programs at all in the way you can is unique to Linux
Project ODIN (http://www.netlabs.org) on OS/2 does the same kind of thing. Not sure whether it's as mature as Wine though.
Xandros looks good to me. I've only ever tried Linux once before in the days of Caldera's Linux 1.1, and have been waiting since then for it to become more newbie-friendly. I'm planning on installing a removable-hard drive mechanism on my next PC so that I can have different drives for Windows, eComstation (the new OS/2), and Linux all physically separated. The only 2 reasons that I can think of to keep a Windows drive are: a) MS Access development of which I do an awful lot at work, and, more importantly, b) Age of Empires!