Mandrake 10.1 Official does everything you mentioned including Firefox and fully working sound. It has a resize utility(built into the installer program) to allow you to resize your current partition making life a lot easier. I agree that older linux distros (like Red Hat 7, Suse 8.0 or previous) were more difficult to install than Windows but things have gotten a WHOLE LOT EASIER. Be sure the distro you use has a 2.6 kernel. I find that Linux is much faster and is a lot more "fun" than using Windows.
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Mandrake 10.1 Official does everything you mentioned including Firefox and fully working sound. It has a resize utility(built into the installer program) to allow you to resize your current partition making life a lot easier. I agree that older linux distros (like Red Hat 7, Suse 8.0 or previous) were more difficult to install than Windows but things have gotten a WHOLE LOT EASIER. Be sure the distro you use has a 2.6 kernel. I find that Linux is much faster and is a lot more "fun" than using Windows. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/ http://distrowatch.org/