Re: Question about Desktop Environments
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 08:29:21PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> 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
Would Windows 95 be close? You should still be able to pick up fvwm95 or at least
a config and adapt it to the latest fvwm. :-)
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Chris.
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