Re: Question about Desktop Environments
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On 03/17/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote:
>>> I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email
>>> and word documents over for her.
>> Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May as well get her away
>> from "word" into a real system.
>
> this is not necessarily as inappropriate as others have
> suggested. *My* mother (wild generalizations based on one anecdotal
> case follows...) would likely greatly appreciate a CLI based
> editor. All totalled, she has probably processed 10x more words in WP
> 5.1 or so than in all the gui editors combined. Its highly likely that
> an older person may be more comfortable in that environment just from
> past experience. I should probably talk to her about that and see if
> she wants to move "back" to something like that...
e3 and joe emulate WordStar, if she's *really* old-school.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Working with women is a pain in the a**."
My wife
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