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The Man <man@man.com> writes:

>I've been fiddling with Linux on and off for a couple of years and just 
>installed an excellent distro, Linux Mint. It's probably the most user 
>friendly distro I've used to date, more so than Ubuntu (upon which it's 
>based)

>But it still fails as a user friendly system for non-geeky types (which 
>given this is Usenet must exclude anyone here) for the following reasons:

>1. Support for wireless networks (I mean the standard wireless network 
>you find in most homes) is poor/flaky.
>2. Sharing printers
>3. Sharing files


>There appears to be no easy way to manage any of the above 3 issues.

All three are easily managed.
I have no idea what Mint is like, I use Mandriva, which is also a pretty
user friendly distro.
It has a GUI for doing wireless networks. I have no idea what "poor/flakey"
means 
Cups shares printers easily.
nfs or samba shares files easily.


>As a standalone PC o/s with an attached laser printer, camera and 
>external HD Linux Mint does everything one could reasonably ask of a 
>home PC, including video, sound, word processing etc. As a member of a 
>home network it is less so.

>Comments? I really hope the community can produce an O/s to rival MS and 

There is nothing here to comment on. You make some  claims backed
up by no information whatsoever, and want comments?

>Apple but to do that Linux needs to be easier to set up and configure a 
>well behaved member of a network than it is as present. I really don't 
>want to know for example anything to do with a command line run thing 
>like Samba for example. I'm sure it lurks under OS X somewhere but it's 
>nicely hidden.

Try draksambashare under Mandriva. Mint might well have something similar.