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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Hey, good review and even better comments.
especially informative ones from Iconoclast and Xiricon.
I do think it's time to retire the surprized/releived tone
that always seem to accompany the news that hardware
was smoothly detected. They all do this now... and while
we are at the installs are all pretty much no-brainers.
(redhat, mandrake, suse,xandros,lindows,lycoris, even
Libranet .. yeah they all have it pretty well nailed.
Xandros seems to be out in front for the Newbie Distros
But is this a surprize? After all this is Corel Linux
reborn. They have a head start over lycoris and lindows.
Here is my recommended migration path.
Winders -->Xandros -->Libranet--->Debian Itself.
Double boot by all means.
Migration like so many things in the Linux world is
optional.
Finally well as a transition move, running MS apps is
good, the goal should be to get off the MS and on to
real open standards.