I have been using OpenOffice for long time, almost 4 years 
For wine I may need to run official evernote.
I have been using various Linux Distros as my main system for years now. When I saw this post, and your mention of the AMD graphics card I feel I must give some advice.
AMD and Linux go together like balloons and tacks… I have an AMD HD Mobility 4200 discrete graphics card in my laptop (primary computer) and finding stable drivers for it has been a nightmare! ATI/AMD have dropped support for this card, as it has been fully optometry (their words) and only release patches for there old driver. This older driver only officially supports Linux Kernel version 3.4.x.x and Xorg 6.9 (I hope you know what both of those are) So to use their driver you have to keep your system honorably out of date. (Current Kernel version is 3.6, and Xorg is 11) or use a rebuilt driver for your kernel version. Which is kinda unstable. I will say from experience that, for AMD cards, Ubuntu and Linux Mint are the only major distros that the AMD driver will work with. Fedora and OpenSUSE are completely out.
I would check what card you have and look around to make sure it works on the Linux distro your thinking of installing. I wish you more luck than I had.
I currently use Linux Mint 13 Maya, and I have the AMD 12.6 Legacy Driver working. I don’t know if I am daring enough to upgrade to Mint 14 yet…
The graphics is 6320 (APU E-450) of Asus 1215B. I want to try Mint 14 and the AMD driver is 12.10 (here). My meet is running 720p MKV flawlessly for now.
In case something failed, I would go back to my old first release Win 7 disc
When I installed arch, it was all command line, now there is a GUI based thing.
it is easier to install the oracle JVM with RPM based distros (Fedora, Red Hat, OpenSUSE), but here is a great tutorial for installing any java version on a deb system (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint)
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Fiuh, after one full day struggling for all problems, finally I can see a full working OS, and successful import projects from old partition to new Eclipse (ADT Bundle). It was not easy, ATI driver didn’t work at first and the sound quality is (still) poor. The sound is clear, but peak on higher volume. Maybe only the official driver who could solve this. But I was surprised with the plus, it recognizes almost all of my hotkeys, USB dongle modem (although the speed seems slower), and blazing fast speed! Mint 14 is far faster than Win 7!
I installed it twice. I encountered weird bug at first. After first restart, only blank screen appeared with no end. I thought the bundled graphic driver is enough, because it automatically detected my biggest resolution and apply it. Then I reinstalled it but made little change. I installed ATI driver straightly before any restart and fixed. However current stable driver is not support wide screen! So I installed the beta one on top of it (without removing the stable one) and solved.
The packages are also very complete. Unfortunately they picked LibreOffice over OpenOffice but that’s okay. However there is not defragment app. The rest are fine.
Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, Arch, and Mint all use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. Mandriva was the lone holdout for a while, but they switched last year.
It’s great how much better Linux performs than Win 7 on the same hardware. The odd occasion I have to boot Win 7 for testing purposes it’s like trying to run through treacle! ;D
LibreOffice is OpenOffice with more features and less bugs. What’s the problem?
You mean for the filesystem? Not necessary! This is a modern system. 
I have used OpenOffice over 4 years :point: but right now I’m not bothered to remove Libre, let’s try it.
Like auto-defrag system? how about junk files? Linux seems creating lot of scripts everywhere.
Huh, why the hell would you remove it? It is what you are looking for - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreoffice
Pretty much. What do you mean by junk files? Linux’s scripts are hardly junk, and rather essential!
@nsigma
Guess I just need to use it without thinking to much ;D One app attracts me is ApTonCD, seems I can build my own customized Mint disc.
Hi
I use Mageia Linux 2. Microsoft Windows drives me sick (really), I try to stay as far from it as possible. Some of my (ex-)girlfriends and some friends use Lubuntu and Ubuntu, my stepmother uses Mageia Linux 2 too.
Icedtea works very well but Icedtea-web is often not installed by default which causes some confusion because the end users expect Java from working fine out of the box and some maintainers don’t know that Icedtea and Icedtea-web are separate projects. Icedtea-web Web Start (inspired of NetX) works reliably and even better than Oracle Java Web Start, you can see the detail of all JARs being downloaded. However, JNLP is not yet fully supported in applets. There is no Java Sound Audio Engine in OpenJDK 1.7, using a simple software mixer based on JavaSound or using OpenAL or OpenALSoft (through JOAL or LWJGL) is almost mandatory. Some fonts are badly displayed, there are a few minor problems with OpenJDK. You’ll need to use my source code to create desktop shortcuts under KDE, the existing feature of Java Web Start only works under GNOME.
I advise you to look at this.
Mandriva is almost dead, Mageia Linux is more actively supported.
In my humble opinion, we should rather use OpenJDK, Icedtea and Icedtea-web. I encourage everyone here to contribute. OpenJDK and Oracle JDK share most of the source code. I don’t really see the interest of installing Oracle JDK under GNU Linux except to use features not yet available in OpenJDK. I’m under GNU Linux for political reasons and I try to prioritize free open source softwares as much as possible. You’re a developer; if you think like a typical Windows user who doesn’t want to take back the control on a device he uses daily to share personal data, maybe consider staying under Windows rather than importing a “Windowsian” mentality in GNU Linux ecosystem.
That’s pretty amazing, I always thought WINE was a linux distribution, not a program that can be run on any linux distro. I will give it a try! thanks.
Something that I just found out is that in a dual-boot setup, it’s possible to use files in the windows partition from the linux partition, but not the other way around… I’m yet to try it, but that would really make linux a much more feasible option. Source: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/76176.html
@gouessej
Thanks for the hit! yeah I agree with the JDK part. Although I use Oracle’s one for now, I want to know more about OpenJDK.
All apps almost set, except F.lux and good twitter client
Defragmentation isn’t totally superfluous on linux systems, but it is largely unnecessary because of Linux’s allocation strategy, which is to use large gaps between files that it fills as they grow. It does tend to spread across the disk more, which can result in longer seek times between files, but overall it works out fine. If you get over 90% or so full and stay that way over lots of writes, then fragmentation can start to be noticeable. For that, there is an ext4defrag available from the same people who developed the ext4 filesystem.
Once we’re all running on SSDs, then this defragging business will be a distant memory.
Yes. Currently I run ArchLinux and Windows XP with dual boot, and I confirm: I’m able to access files from windows, but not the other way around.
With everything valve is doing right now, I would love to see a Valve Linux distro… even if its just a small modification from an existing one