Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:58:25 -0600,
Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote in message
<[🔎] 1069761505.7725.6.camel@Thief>:
> I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very
> little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the
> moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest.
>
> My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something
> better. Every time before I've had to go with a newbie-friendly GUI
> for people who don't know computers and more importantly DON'T WANT TO
> LEARN about them, I've gone with either a Gnome or KDE setup.
>
> In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz
..ooo. Relic. A first generation P? Stuff in as much ram as it'll
take.
> with 32 MB of RAM. While I'd love to put Gnome and Nautilus on there
> and call it a day, waiting 10 minutes for the desktop to load and
> another 2 minutes for the file-manager just won't cut it I'm afraid.
>
> At any other time, I'd suggest one of the *box variants. But with a
> user with this little knowledge and this little patience, anything
> that she can't just pick up and use right away simply won't cut it. So
> any ideas?
..fvwm95, icewm, and a few more can be set up to look like wintendo.
> (If only I could get her to learn emacs... emacs + w3m + XF86 + gnus =
> perfection! :)
.. ;-)
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