On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:18:22 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:

>Slackware; Xfce4.
>
>It doesn't need to be up-to-date (I found an intro to linux from 2008)
>but needs to teach what tool to use for what type of file. I think
>this is distribution/DE agnostic. Tools like evince and mupdf work on
>any distro and desktop environment, don't they?

+1 for Evince, but I've been using Linux exclusively since 2005 and
I've never heard of mupdf. And it's not installed on my Xubuntu 18.04
desktop.

As for Calbre, I have it installed, but I think I had to install it
myself; it was not part of the default Xubuntu installation.

If I were doing this I would start with a list of tasks that you are
going to support, e.g., read and write e-mail, use a web browser, write
a letter, listen to music, and so on. Then I would identify the most
common apps that various distros install to do each of the tasks I have
identified, and then figure out which distros install all of them.

Maybe identify the user you are targeting first. Is this for someone
who has never used a computer before, or someone already familiar with
Windows or MacOS.

This is a formidable task. It might take me the rest of my life.
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