Try Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/ Quite a nice graphical interface. Easy to use and lots of apps to choose from. As to being user friendly, it depends of what you want to do. It seems to me that for the average user it is as easy to use as any other system. For the power user, the person who likes to look under the hood and tinker, it offers unlimited opportunities. Me? I am somewhere in between.
I does require learning a new system, but all change requires some effort. I believe the benefits were worth the effort. Faster loading of programs, NO crashes. Better on line security. Open source software that is designed to serve the user, not aid corporate law enforcement. A community of users to help with problems and a great variety of software, most all of it at no cost. OpenCPN and SeaClear (with Wine) are great charting apps and run on Ubuntu. In my case - What's not to like? I don't know. Most of us love to bitch about windows and microsoft. Some got tired of complaining and switched. I am happy with my decision. Heck, next to making the decision to live aboard changing the operating system on your computer is a piece of cake. The adventure continues... . Philip On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 16:20 -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > Has Linux gotten computer illiterate friendly yet? Seems that there was a > steep learning curve originally. BTW, congrats on your new family addition. > Bob > PDQ 36 > Peace _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
