On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Alan Stone
( Oops, pushed inadvertedly some key on my keyboard and the message was away while in GMail - here's the sequel... )
Having heard Linux is, amongst other things, far more stable I might be tempted to play with it and progressively build some experience with it, master the beast and then switch some applications, amongst which ConTeXt, to it.
As I presently don't know a thing about Linux, which distribution do you recommend ?
More than the distribution (all the major ones are less or more the same), you must choose your desktop environment : Gnome / KDE (or xfce for a small and speedy one). No troll, be it's usual to say : The gnome one is more « run it, it's simple, it works » but it's more difficult to do really fine tune (even if you can do them). KDE : run it, it works (too) but you can fine tweaks on each part (the menues are impressive). Remember that the liveCDs are your friends : just try them ! I'm using Ubuntu and gnome but all the other choices are good. Welcome in a « linux » world ! Olivier. -- [Message tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] Olivier nemolivier@gmail.com http://nemolivier.blogspot.com