Hi. I put a computer with Debian 3.0 for my flatmates (windows users) and the most noticeable things they commenteed were: * 1st and most important. The fonts. The installation selected the highest possible resolution so everything looked small and almost unreadable. Mr Joe Average should be able to change that. Hopefully with RandR extensions introduced in XFree86 4.3 this can be solved. The fonts did not have AA by default. And that was also a no-no. Used to the nice AA in Windows some pages looked ugly. Lack (or poor) Java/JavaScript support. Some pages kept on crashing, and loading netscape solved most of those problems, but introduced the netscape-fonts problem. Application names. Aethera/Mozilla/Galeon/TheGIMP/Evolution/... don't mean a thing for a non /. reader. Things like Web Browser (Mozilla) Image Editor (The Gimp) Mail Reader (Evolution) would help. As a side note, should be something you can switch off for the power users (I do not want to look for a web browser, i go for phoenix). Unified login. Since it was a common computer they tend to leave the session open. I set different account for each of them, but they left them open (rushing for the bus/other reasons) and when other user came and could not find the bookmarks he/she left, they were puzzled. For the one of them who closed other's sessions, was acused of closing applicacions with unsaved work on them, so they had to redo it. (At this point one of them ask me how could anyone write a document under linux and save the whole «applicacion» on a diskette to open the same document on a windows machine, so I decided to put the computer with windows back into use... The test will continue). HTH Jesse -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finland. web: www.hispalinux.es/~data/ | pumuki.hispalinux.es ------------------------------------------------------ Please, encrypt mail sent to me: GnuPG ID: 86946D69 FP: BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 ------------------------------------------------------ Registered Linux user #66350 Debian 3.0 & Linux 2.4.20 Where are you going, Starfish and Friends? --Chad (Charlie's Angels)
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