Larilin

Thanks for the information concering games! Games are not the most important thing to me though. I plan to use this pc mostly for working and surfing on the internet. But what you write about a windows emulator, sounds interesting. One important reason why I want to start using Linux is that I have been heavily attacked by viruses lately and lost a lot of time dealing with that. I don't think my computer is completely clean yet. In addition, there are some other problems with my pc - which may be related to viruses - or to windows being an unstable os.. So I am looking for an os with more security and dependability but if I can keep working with an interface that looks like the one I am used to ..that's great!

firefox2501: Thanks a lot! That was very helpful and solves my problem, really. Thank you! Larilin

Hi all, I hope nobody has asked this question before (I didn't find it). I am considering starting to use Linux on my personal computer (I'm currently using Windows 2000), but as I have to interact and exchanges files with Windows pc's, I prefer to buy the linux distro that will give me the least headache with regard to interacting with Windows pc's. My impression is that SuSe is best at this, as SuSe 8.0 seems to be able to read (and write?) office files. If not for this, I would choose RedHat which seems to me to be very good. But as RedHat seems to be less compatible with windows, I might go with Suse. I would appreciate comments and suggestions! Thank you