Linux OS and Everything Else

I have been experimenting and installing every form of linux you could imagine from the latest Suse (SLED) , Pioneer, Puppy, and more - I cannot find a distro that has everything I need in enough ways to give up my Windows XP. That has been my search and still I am at a loss. I was pleased when I got Reaper to work under wine only to have it crash and make my screen go dark. I have recently settled on Xandros 3.0 community edition - this does not replace XP it is only in addition to it. I do say this is a very solid linux distribution , it comes with most apps that I need - my only tests were - does my internet, sound, and streaming radio via shoutcast work - they did so for now this is what I am going with but sadly still using Windows XP for most of my actual work. I am in Xandros using Firefox as I type this but then I will be going to my XP machine to do my actual work. My main gripe is there are no good multitrack music editors like Reaper, Acid, or Magix Music Maker in Linux - there are applications that do these types of things but they are too hard to use and many of them rely on something called Jack that for some reason always gives me major headaches when I try to make it work. Will somebody please make a good multitrack music application for linux that is easy to use!

First tonight, I got the Xandros desktop 4 DVD on the May 2007 issue of Linux Magazine. I have used Xandros before and really liked it so I had to install this to see how the latest one was. Awesome as usual - no problems at all - highly recommended distro. But now for my main focus. Puppy Linux - this is my latest obsession. I have been downloading all kinds of versions of Puppy Linux, so far, Puppy 2.16 is the only one that has given me any problems - after booting with 2.16 I had no GUI it would start to load X Windows and then just blank out and go back to the shell. Right now though, I am in Mean Pup - 1.0.5 Mozilla.iso - this one is nice - I like the different default orange color scheme and the desktop is sweet also. Even the boot screen had some nice colors and graphics to it. I was glad on this one that the video display tool came up right away - some of the versions don't do that - it makes it really easy to switch immediately to my proper display settings. I did have to dig through the start menu to get my ethernet config tool - I prefer that to be right on the desktop for convenience to me. I like the default Mozilla web browser theme as well. I am a huge fan of Puppy Linux. I wrote a small tutorial on Puppy Linux 2.12 you can find it on www.anixas.com on my links page if you have any interest.