On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 19:06, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Saturday 21 Aug 2004 7:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > [snip] > > I have, however, been able to check out a few folks in the past that > > have never used a Mac or a Windows based machine; and in meeting > > their simple needs (email, websurfing, word processing) I have been > > able to give them a linux desktop right from the get-go; to them, > > anything else is strange and unusual and unfriendly... > > Out of interest, which WM do you use for them? Do you find that learning > any WM seems to be as easy as any other - and the first one learned is > always preferred, or are there Linux WMs that seem to be easier to > learn than MS Windows?
KDE and Gnome appear to be the best; one client ended up liking WindowMaker however (but he's a strange fellow anyways). KDE appears to be the easier of the two (between Gnome and KDE) and a bit more intuitive (and appears to be feature packed in relation to the way that Gnome first appears - rather spartan and, well, boring with crappy fonts and visual candy). Most luck so far has been with KDE. I would recommend it in a situation where you have a very "newbie" person starting out - less question, easier to comprehend. I have tried out Rox in a kids situation - THAT worked quite well for a tight, locked down desktop and simple application launching. -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. I'm DESPONDENT ... I hope there's something DEEP-FRIED under this miniature DOMED STADIUM ...
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