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 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? (If only I could get her to learn emacs... emacs + w3m + XF86 + gnus = perfection! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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