Also, 1st thing to do with KDE, is to lock the widgets on the desktop, & also on the tray at the bottom of the screen.
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:44 PM, elcaseti . <[email protected]> wrote: > In my experience, having people new to Libre operating systems try several > distros, is very likely to overwhelm & cause them to give up on libre > software. I suggest that they try Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, & stick with only the > LTS version, rather than upgrading to the STS versions in between. They're > still on XP which means they don't like to mess with all the new bells & > whistles of each short term support release. > > Since they're used to Windows XP, Kubuntu is the most similar experience > to that. Another option would be Mint KDE 17 when it comes out in ~July. > > Cheers, > > Elcaset > > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:19 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 15:13:01 -0500 >> Richard Owlett <[email protected]> dijo: >> >> >It said in part "I haven't quite given up on XP yet but am trying >> >to go to 7. The problem is that I hate 7 and hate Chrome & Gmail >> >even more - but I'm not going over to whatever you happen to use >> >- I'm not smart enough to learn something else - and then teach >> >Judy. " >> > >> >I'm a Debian fan. Judy, his wife, has a M.S. in Music Education >> >(major in piano, minor in organ). In my opinion they are both in >> >the audience targeted by Microsoft and Canonical. I suspect that >> >that anything looking like Gome3 would be a show stopper. >> >> The first step is to find out if there are any programs that they >> absolutely must use. If any of them lack a Linux alternative, you'll >> have an uphill battle. And having said that, I have found that getting >> a Windows user to start using LibreOffice even while still on a Windows >> machine is a good idea. LibreOffice is the gateway drug to the open >> source world. And for the music major I might suggest Lilypond as well. >> >> I agree with your estimate that Ubuntu is probably the best option for >> them. As for which "buntu to turn them on to, that is kind of tough. I >> haven't used Windows since Windows 2000, so I don't know what the >> desktop looks like. You'd probably want to suggest one that looks the >> most like an XP desktop from the beginning. We know that a Linux >> desktop is highly configurable, but they won't realize that for some >> time after trying Linux. They'll think that the desktop must look like >> it does when it first boots, and if it is too different from XP it will >> turn them off. >> >> You might send them live DVDs of Ubunu (Unity), Xubuntu, Ubuntu-Gnome, >> Kubuntu and Lubuntu, and have them spend some time in each one. >> >> It also occurs to me that their motivation for making a move is because >> XP is no longer supported, so they are probably worried about security >> issues. Well, they could use XP forever with great security if they run >> it in Virtualbox on a Linux machine. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > > > -- > Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy > http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ > https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en > -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
