Ok, sorry tinny for a long wait, i was out for a while, and why didnt anyone else answer yet?
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1) As i understand, there are options for GUIs such as KDE. What is the most user-friendly one for someone accustomed to Windows? And what do they offer other than the interface. Is there any performance difference?
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Some? there is so many, 2 main and biggest being KDE and Gnome, there is so many, from boxes (blackbox, fluxbox, openbox, whitebox), to 3d guis (looking glass, metisse) and anything in between.
acrually my friend was telling me about one that was a lot more user firendly than windows gui, because it made more sense, i'll ask him about that... if you want a more complete GUI, use Gnome, although some people prefer KDE over it, i just hate the bells and whissles of it, but either one works fine. Just wait a while, maybe i'll think of the name of the super friendly gui that kicks explorers buttocks really badly in its user friedability
(as for me, i hate big, shiny, bloated GUIs, so i use blackbox...)
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2) What difference do the different linux packages make. Like red hat, mandrake and fedora.
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If you want a package, get yourself a debian-based distro, not debian itself, but a debian-based distro, or better yet Gentoo if you want real linux and want to know about the inner workings of your operating system... The difference is custimizability, kernel patches, packages that they come with, package clients, and lastly who you pay money to, and mostly how they use the money the money you pay them. (P.S. whatever you do, dont use RedHat)
Why Gentoo?
the Packge management system is crazy awesome, the installation requires an internet connection and either a live CD or knoppix, because you download most of your system, oh yeah, and you need a decently fast connection in order to operate gentoo on everyday basis, so if you have a DSL or Cable connection, at least at work (btw i have not figured out how to setup dialup under linux, but its just a matter of time)...
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3)It seems that my mandrakelinux runs very slow compared to windows 98/ME. How can I improve the performance? Should I use a different Linux package? Or the settings? Or the GUI?
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right back at you: when was the last time you have updated, how much space do your partitions have on the hard drive, how many big packages do you have installed, what version of mandrake are you running, how much ram and swap does your system have, and lastly how is your kernel configured, what do you load and what services do you have start and what is in your cron, are you root kitted, can you check? Linux should perform better than windows all the time, if your system has been compromised or there is something wrong, it can start bogging down, also if you are running a big GUI and your system can not handle it, you will run into huge performance losses, also if you have many services run, you will run into performance loss, and lasty if you have any drivers that are unstable, you may run into a performance loss (there's much more, but first i need to know the answers to the questions above...) to ask a series of new ones
