In article <CAE3AcKfZ=xzu8opaosihyaw5cganxgoashdmykhlkryoizy...@mail.gmail.com>, Dave Widgery <dave.widg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi
> I am looking at possibly moving our two notebooks over to linux, I used > to be a Unix system Manager (although 15 years ago and very rusty) so I > am not too worried which flavour. but my wife struggles with windows > these days so I need something that has a good look and feel of the > windows GUI, we don't use much in the way of windows programs, but > having something with good windows emulation would be good. Others may know better, but I'm not clear if you are saying the desktop GUI must look like a specific instance of the Windows/MS GUI, or simply needs to have an easy to use GUI that behaves in a similar way. cf below... > Lastly I do want to run get_iplayer on my laptop so I need something > that there is a get_iplayer distribution available. I'd guess that if the distro you pick can install the required language support then you can simply get the most up to date version of get-iplayer directly. That's what I've always done. Hasn't ever occurred to me to even look for a version from the repos of the my preferred choice of distro! > I was looking at robolinux that provides appears to provides good > windows look and feel and windows compatibility, I wondered if anyone > had any experience of robolinux or can suggest a suitable alternative. OK, so it must look and feel as close to a given Windows version as possible? Not just respond in the same sorts of ways in terms of mousebutton actions, etc? Sorry if my questions are numpty. I just install ROX as the desktop. FWIW Usually on Linux Mint xfce. Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
