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There's been quite a few postings and articles on new users and Linux flourishing during the past year.  The reason I believe this to be is that desktop Linux is approaching or has arrived at the tipping point where it can gain mainstream adoption.  People are seeing Linux as a viable alternative to Microsoft.  My wife recently had me nuke the dual boot computer and go with Linux due to Windows Media Player 11 restrictions set to come out when it is released.  Her main concern is being told by companies how she should be able to listen to her music after she's bought it...kinda like buying a car and the dealer tells you where you can drive it and how you can.  She's in the process of converting all her mp3's to ogg's to 1) save space and 2) because they sound better and are in a free format.  Thus far, she's not missing Windows.

Many blogs also have taken up this topic and, when determining the best Linux desktop, gushed about Xandros, Freespire, Ubuntu, and MEPIS.  The thing I find odd is that they forget the little guy that's outpacing all the others...and that little guy is PCLinuxOS.  Let's take a look at a few reasons why PCLinuxOS is, IMHO, the best Linux flavor for new users.

Statistics are something I love. AWStats is my friend. We go out on Fridays and I buy it shots of Jack at the local tavern. Seriously though, statistics are something I generally love to look up and ponder...mainly because with statistics, time is a huge factor and in business time is money. So, if one can learn from past statistics to save oneself time and effort, business can benefit...which explains my interest.

I recently moved and during the move found a couple of old hard drives. Dusting off and installing one brought back some memories...it contained an install of SimplyMEPIS 2003.10, which was my second install of that particular OS. This got me thinking...I wondered what benefits MEPIS garnered from my old, defunct enthusiast site mepislinux.org? At the time and shortly thereafter, no benefits were clearly visible. In fact, with my somewhat loud depart from the MEPIS community, there were many claims that both my site and I did nothing for the distro.

With Google Trends, statistics are at my fingertips. Using this site, I'm able to look back in time and see if my old 12 page review did any good at all to help MEPIS along...I was very surprised to see that I was part of the highest surge MEPIS has made to date according to Google Trends.