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Good advice from Butch re: making a Live CD/USB.  I'd suggest going the USB
route since you can configure the drive for persistence when you're
building it to allow you to save changes to the image as you use it.  You'd
get a better feel for using it as your daily driver that way.

I haven't tried React, but I've been using Mint recently.  It uses the
Cinnamon desktop environment, which is very user friendly.  A bunch of
useful applications (gpart, gimp, VLC, etc) are included by default.  Also
has a nice "app store" if you (or a family member!) don't want to mess with
apt-get commands in the terminal.

-- 
John Casey
Library Lab Manager
Glenbrook South High School
4000 W. Lake Ave.
Glenview, IL 60026
(847) 486-4944

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Jacob-
>
>
> Off the top of my head, load it, first, with a "Live CD" so you can test
> drive it on the machine you want to load it on.  Then, make sure you have
> the drivers on hand for sound/network/mass storage, etc.
>
> I loaded the most recent version (it's still in Alpha) on a Dell 1510
> laptop.
>
> It installed fine. It just doesn't have any of the drivers for the audio
> card, the network card, the camera, the storage... It gave me a default
> level video driver that worked okay and it recognized the CD drive and the
> keyboard/touchpad.
>
> Just fyi.
>
>
>
>
> Butch Wilson
> MCSE/MCSA/Security+/
> Google Education Trainer
> Google Certified Associate - G Suite Administrator
> Network Specialist, Learning Technology Center Six
> 618-244-8040
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts on ReactOS?  I am considering operating systems for a
>> computer at home, and cringe at the idea of paying for one.
>>
>> jpr
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jacob P. Roskovensky
>>
>> Library Media Specialist,
>> Charleston High School
>>
>> President-Elect,
>> Illinois School Library Media Association
>>
>> 1615 Lincoln Avenue
>> Charleston, IL 61920
>> (217) 639- 5012 <(217)%20639-5012>
>>
>> CHLE-ZCH
>>
>> @jprosko
>> roskoihls at gmail.com
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