On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:13, rowan wrote: > As may have already been stated one of the most important things that > must be improved (?) with Linux is to make it attractive enough to �new > entrants� or �converts� so they don�t unthinkingly and automatically go to > MS. By that I mean that it must be really easy to use, must look nice and > maybe even give some of the programs sensible names - my sister was looking > over my mandrake recently and she commented about how many of them had > strange names - �why do so many of the names have K in front of them ?�
Beats having the program name prefixed by "Windows" :) The best way of newcomers installing new programs in my opinion is Synaptic. All well and good if you have apt on your system, requires more setting up if you do not. But once done you just tick the box for the application you want and when you've picked all the ones you want you just hot "proceed". Works like a charm. I've used it on Red Hat and Debian systems. Many here can show you how. Vik :v)
