Re: why debian
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:44, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> William Ballard wrote:
> I'd have to say that anyone who says this distro isn't user friendly
> enough for just about anyone to use is wrong. I built a Debian box for
> a friend of mine who is about as computer illiterate as anyone I've ever
> seen. He'd had his computer for 6 years and didn't know how to copy
> and paste in Windows or use Explorer to look around inside the system
> when I first met him less than a year ago. He was scared stiff of the
> thing.
>
> I built him a sarge box a couple of months after his Win98 machine had
> been hacked for the 4th time. He's as happy as a clam with this thing.
> He's actually excited about learning about his computer for the first
> time in his life. I've walked him through making changes to his system
> by editing .conf files over the phone, walked him through the CUPS setup
> and how to administer his printer, and a few other things. He likes
> seeing these things and understanding how they change his system. It's
> changed his attitude towards computing in general because it's no longer
> a "black box".
... and now in Sarge he might not need even to edit .conf files directly
because of configure-debian and synaptic + libgnome2-perl.
Chris.
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Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>
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