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The Perfect Desktop - PCLinuxOS 2007 This tutorial shows how you can set up a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. I found that PCLinuxOS is really easy to install and use, and it's a real alternative.

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I think it's a great idea to try and get people to move from Windows to linux (any distro), but all the howtos (including this one) get a bit over-exuberant on the apps being installed.  I notice you have included Thunderbird and Evolution.  Surely it would have been better to just have one mail client ?  The same applies to CD/DVD burning packages.  And how many media players can you use at once.  I think this is indicative of the struggle to move people from Windows.  Pick a player and make sure it can use all the appropriate codecs to allow the user to play anything they like.

Sure a choice of mail clients is nice, but if a user sets them both up and uses them both to retrieve mail, they will end up with (approx) half their mail in each. 

Maybe I'll put my typing where my mouth is and produce a howto to replicate the out-of-the-box Windows experience.

By: admin

This is just for demonstration purposes. Of course, you can install all the software, but you can also pick only the software that you need. The tutorial just shows how to install all software, but it's up to you which software you install.

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Thank you for the how to Falko,

One question, when you list programs of what you think should be on PCLinuxOS 2007 like Firefox, OpenOffice etc, that whole list, do you mean I should have those saved first in my Windows Programs folder or get them after I install Linux?

I am an infant with Linux so please keep that in mind.

Thank you,

Thomas Lowe

By: Anonymous

I'm sure you have worked it out by now but...

To install programs in PCLinuxOS (like other Linux distros) you select them from a repository list, unlike Windows where you need to find them yourself and hope it works. The repository (package manager) contains the latest versions of compatable software.

Hope that has helped and please correct me if that sounded wrong.

By: Philippe

Am trying to install the program on my laptop and keep getting the same error message:

ERROR: Unable to mount loop filesystem,

Commant were:

Losetup /dev/loop0 initrd/cdrom/livecd.sqfs

mount -r -t squashfs /dev/loop0, initrd/loopfs

Dropping you to a limited shell

Loading /initrd/binash

Then the pc is frozen. Out of curiosity I tried to check what would happen on my other laptop (the first is on Windows XP and the 2nd one on Windows Vista) and I get the same error message.

Can you help?