Re: Question about Desktop Environments
Jonathan Jacobs wrote:
GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there
that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers computer
and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out of my mom,
about the computer, is that it is running slowly. I have already
removed any spyware and whatnot and I have cleaned the reg. It is about
time that I upgraded her pc to Debian. Just need a desktop environment
that looks like XP......any suggestions?
Jonathan
If the hardware is fairly recent (< 4 years old), running gnome or kde
on it should not be any problem. I have heard that kde looks more like
windows than gnome, but with the right theme, it should be possible to
make gnome look like windows too.
IMHO, it would be easier to convince your mother to make the switch to
linux rather than trying to make her believe she is running windows. No
matter what you try, if she has been using windows for a couple of
years, she is bound to find out for herself that it is not windows.
Instead, you can tell her that the reason for the computer being slow
was the result of all the malware and that there is a better
alternative, linux, which doesn't have this problem.
That is what I did in my father-in-law's case. Sure I had to set things
up for him a little bit. Install skype and set up the internet
connection. But after that he is a happy linux user (ubuntu in this
case) and comments on how easy his computer has become to use.
--
Raj Kiran Grandhi
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At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will
find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the
computer.
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