<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Anne Wilson wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200705130940.46213.cannewilson@googlemail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sunday 13 May 2007, John wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Well I can say for sure now, using linux (or at least FC) has left a really bad taste in my mouth... I'd rather go back to Windows 100% and deal with its security problems than have to *waste *my time troubleshooting my FC builds. Two outta three FC boxes (here) have 'misplaced' the floppy and cd drives. I know the cd drive was working when I switched over to KDE from Gnome; now its MIA with KDE too. This box, can't even find my scanner-- jeez, I can go to the HP site and get the scanner software for Win95 to Vista. How screwed up is Fedora 7 going to be?? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">While 'linux is linux', distros do vary quite a bit, and some distros are better than others with particular hardware. Before giving up, try out some live CDs if you can get hold of them - many are available for download. In particular, I'd think that either ubuntu or mandriva may suit you better than fedora. Hope that helps Anne </pre> </blockquote> He he he; one of the perks of having broadband- most of the distros are already sitting here on cd. :-) Thanks for your help in the past btw. John </body> </html>