I'm an enthousiast . Linux it's a FREE and fully documented
operating system. All the source codes for all programs are
available, too. A user can have full control of his computer.
Linux runs well on older hardware, it is far more stable than
any version of Windows to date and it doesn't violate your
privacy (as Windows sometimes does). There is plenty of very
good software (both commercial and free) available. Moving from
Windows to Linux takes just some re-learning. I started using
Linux more than 15 years ago, with Red Hat distribution. A short
period of time I "tasted" the Slackware distribution, then for
another few years I've used Debian. After that, I've discovered
that SuSE is very friendly.Chronologically, the lastest
distribution which I enjoy is Kubuntu (Ubuntu + KDE). It seems
that it is easier to mantain and to find the packages which I
need, without any need to compile them. My favorite
distributions are: - Kubuntu is an Ubuntu-derived distribution,
which further on is based on Debian. In my op