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Old 07-02-2010, 10:48 PM   #2
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If you use a distribution like Ubuntu, the software is pretty intuitive. You might also look at Linux Mint, which was a variant of Ubuntu, but now is based on Debian, that has all the nice stuff built in - playing commercial DVDs work out of the box, lots of drivers out of the box for common Windows hardware.

You really don't have to worry about viruses, and while it is possible to read and write your Windows filesystem, there aren't viruses that target Linux.

Firefox is built into distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. But most Linux OSs have an easy way to get popular software packages if they are not part of the out of the box OS.
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