I want to thank you all for your very detailed and helpful replies. In the end, I've discovered that what thenktor said really put it all in a nutshell for me. I didn't realize that when a distro is described as simple and easy that those words don't equate to "made for a beginner who WANTS ease of ...

What a nice bunch of responses. Thank you all. This forum definitely gets my vote for helpful and friendly.

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Scribus and Inkscape - yes! Thank you. Those were both the programs I couldn't think of. Are they runnable under Salix?

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Guess I'll add my two cents worth here ...

Hello all,

I've used mac computers for many years. I'm going to be buying an older laptop with a pentium M - and making the switch to Linux. After some really good advice on other forums, I've narrowed the contenders down the Salix and Vector. To be honest, the more I read back and forth between ...