Mario,

a lot of people here use UBUNTU. Its free and quite stable. It comes with PLENTY of apps right out of the box, and many more to DL for free or cheap.

It comes with a mail program or two, and even a generic version of microsoft office, which can open and edit office files (Excel, Word Etc)

You don't have to reformat.. the installation will do whatever it needs to install itself... but I guess you could reformat if you want to.

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After re-reading your post, I see you didn't like UBUNTU. I didn't like it when I demo'd it from a CD (it was way too slow) but after I installed it to the hard drive it was very fast... and the look & feel isn't substantially different than Windows

Last edited by Pat Marr; 08/14/14 08:38 PM.