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Roland Tarver wrote: > Hi Folks > > A good friend of mine, Ian, is buying a new laptop and a new desktop. > The laptop is for his wife to do her uni work on and the desktop is > for him to play games on - he is a big gamer. > > We have had a brief conversation about linux and I have managed to > persuade him to try a live CD. Ian and the rest of his family are used > to a GUI. He has no knowledge (yet) of the command line. > > What I want to do is show linux off by using a really *nice looking* > live-cd. If I can tempt Ian with a sexy GUI, then perhaps I can get > him to dual boot and begin his linux journey. > > I was thinking perhaps linux mint?, but wondered what everyone else thought? > > Many thanks > Best wishes > Roly > I would agree with Mint, but the KDE version. I think KDE would be much more familiar than Gnome for some one moving across from Windows. Version 8 KDE is available. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html