Re: Question about Desktop Environments
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:34:04PM -0500, 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?
>
Hi Jonathan,
I would suggest that you get many different live-cd distros with
different look and feel:
ubuntu
kubuntu
pclinuxos
etc.
And then tell her to try these differnt ones and see which seems easist
to her. Gnu/Linux does not have somethat that would fool her to think
its XP, so you can´t pull the switch-o-roo without her noticing. Tell
her it will be faster, virus free, something new to try and something
that can you can help her customize to her liking. Think: wall paper,
font size, themes,...
Make it a game to have fun with...
The worst that can happen is that she goes back to her XP and seems how
slow it is ;-)
-K
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