I agree with you about Sun Java Desktop not being the best choice for our PC here at home. On the one hand, Sun has done a good job, I believe, at putting together a distribution that does well at covering the office/email/browsing bases. We've even been able to play movies from digital camera with no trouble at all. My wife is perfectly satisfied, and my son hasn't complained a bit these past couple days. On the other hand, their subscription model makes no sense for home users. Frankly, I'm not convinced it makes sense for small-business users either. And then there is the so-called network effect. When downloading software over the net, it's easier, for example, to find rpms aimed at SuSE, or at Red Hat, than at Sun Java Desktop. In the long run, I'll likely throw either Fedora or SuSE 9 on that PC. In the short run, my daughter and I are planning next week to try putting Lindows on her Thinkpad.
