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# 8  
Old 09-20-2013
I agree with Skrynesaver - I first used Ubuntu back in '07 with the good old Gnome. When I tried it again about 18 months ago, I didn't like Unity, so I started looking some place else, and that's how I landed with Mint, and IMHO it is the best distro to start with if you're coming from a Windows environment, especially because it has a couple of alternate graphical environments that you can try. Just saying Smilie. Hope it helps!
PS: About using the Microsoft Suite, have you given LibreOffice a try? It doesn't lack anything that the Office suite has to offer.
# 9  
Old 09-20-2013
I used to be an Ubuntu guy, have heard great things about Mint, but I prefer Debian. No great reason, other than it just seems the most intuitive to me. You might as well just jump into one and go for it, the exploration is half the fun.
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# 10  
Old 10-03-2013
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop is built for both the administrator and the end user. Built with the robust and secure Red Hat Enterprise Linux foundation and leading end-user applications and features from the open source community, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop is an attractive and highly productive environment for knowledge workers on desktops or laptops.

Client installations can be finely tailored and locked down for simplicity and security for any task workstation. For those who require performance, visualization, and interactivity for simulation and design, Red Hat provides support for the latest graphics cards and true scalability on multi-core systems.

Desktop

Designed for task workers. Typically requires a limited set of applications. End user has limited administrative control over the system. System administrators need to be able to pre-configure and remotely manage consistent images across a large number of systems.

Primary applications in use are productivity applications like Firefox, Evolution/Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Planner/TaskJuggler. Primary services in use would be network file systems like SMB/CIFS, NFS, printing services, IM.

Workstation

Workstations are designed for advanced Linux users. In addition to the tools provided in the Desktop variant, the Workstation variant supports a stand-alone development environment. End users are expected to have local super-user privileges or select super-user privileges.

New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Your productivity, security and flexibility are enhanced with

OpenOffice 3 suite
Email - (openchange MAPI client capability)
NetworkManager - mobile network connection management
Cisco IPSEC client compatibility
Smart Card support
Encrypted disk (luks)
# 11  
Old 10-03-2013
That's great, thanks for all the feedback guys, I think I'll be going for Mint at the moment, running Windows apps with Wine where I need to, thanks a lot!
# 12  
Old 10-03-2013
I just heard yesterday about this great-looking distro named ZorinOS. You may want to take a look at it as well on their website. One of it's cool features is that you get to choose between 3 graphical environments. By the way, it's Ubuntu-based, just like Linux Mint.
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