CentOS for newbie's desktop? [Was: Re: Fedora Core ... problem]

[Matej Cepl]

On 2007-05-29, 18:55 GMT, Les Mikesell wrote:
> [...], but I wish there were something that used the same 
> packaging and admin techniques that would make a usable desktop 

On that note. Couple of people asked me (or are going to ask me 
soon) to install Linux on their desktop. People who are computer 
savvy to some degree (or not that much savvy in one case -- but 
the lady has learned Red Hat first in times when it was still Red 
Hat, and then she got Windows with the new computer, and now she 
goes around and notalgically remembers about beautfy of that Red 
Hat icons which was welcoming her on login, and hates 
unfriendliness of Windows ;-) -- and she is really not computer 
geek; sorry, I digress).

Being now a Red Hat employee, I would love to install them some 
Red Hat related distro, but I am not sure which one. Of course, 
they wouldn't like to shell out big bucks (especially considering 
CZK-USD exhange rate) on RH Desktop. However, I wouldn't feel 
happy to install them Fedora with 13 (or how many) months of 
guaranteed support. So, I was thinking lately about installing 
them CentOS as a desktop.

Is it good idea? Does anybody have any experience with using 
CentOS on desktop, which is primarily used to do something else 
than developing Linux? Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Matej