If you are looking for a desktop Linux with all the ease and user-friendliness of OS X, Linspire Five-O is a great option. It may not be the best for advanced users, but home and SOHO users will be happy with its performance, support, and great looks, the review says.
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"so can you do a dist-upgrade equivalent in CNR?"
You can in a sense. You can download all the upgrades provided by Linspire. I know, it is a limit to your freedom, but it is either that or learn the hard way.
"You imply that everything is always ok in linspire? so nothing ever goes wrong? packages always cleanly install and uninstall? how many packages are available thru CNR?"
Nothing is ever perfect, but they do their very best to make people's life easy.
How many apps? I believe around 3000: there is everything the average user will ever need: multimedia, games, P2P, development...
And it is still fairly compatible with Debian, so you can still apt-get install something missing.
Having said all that I use Debian, not Linspire.
But I paid for a lifetime membersip to support their ideal of linux on the desktop made easy for everybody.
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2005-07-06
"Ever heard of Synaptic? Where were you all these years it has been around?"
I was using Debian and apt, and I knew that synaptic is only a convenient frontend for apt. Things could be (almost) OK if you ever only used Stable (although even Stable has its fair share of bugs, they aren't just "release critical")
But try a dist-upgrade in Testing or Sid and you'll soon realize what I mean. As soon as a problems arise (and they do all the time), you need advanced skills and plenty of experience.
I learned Debian the hard way, and there isn't any easy one: CNR tries to make a newbie's life easier.