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A. Kane:
>
> […] I am an artist and therefore very visual. If I can see it I know
> if I want it. What can you suggest; is there a simple solution. I
> currently use Firefox and Thunderbird and Open Office with Trend
> Micro as the firewall.
Just a few thoughts:
First: Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org run on Linux just as fine
as on Windows. They will look slightly different, though. Depending on
your taste and the desktop environment you choose, this is better or
worse than on Windows.
Then: In my opinion, Debian is a very good distro choice for many
people, but I suspect you will have to spend more time tweaking it than
you want to. Other distributions like Ubuntu or openSUSE might better
fit your needs. If you don't care very much about choice, freedom (as in
"free software") and the ability to tweak (and break) every part of your
operating system, you might want go the Mac route as well.
And, by the way: I don't know about any "desktop firewall" like Trend
Micro's for Linux. Firewall applications for Linux take a different
approach than those for Windows and this is generally a good thing. In
short, you don't need such software when running Linux and in my opinion
you don't them on Windows either.
J.
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