I just fired up Slackware64-14.1 (of course! Slackers Unite!) with KDE for my wife's laptop. We'll see how it goes. Backup plan is Linux Mint.
On Monday, April 21, 2014, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <w...@pacifier.com> wrote: > Suggestions? Look at Linux Mint. My wife is very computer un-friendly > but loves her Linux Mint. She used to use Ubuntu (before Unity). I have > set several friends up with Linux Mint, both Linux Mint 13 LTS Mate and > KDE. > > I'm a slacker myself (Slackware). > Wayne > > On 04/19/2014 01:13 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I've received an email from a E.E. classmate from late 60's. > > > > It said in part "I haven't quite given up on XP yet but am trying > > to go to 7. The problem is that I hate 7 and hate Chrome & Gmail > > even more - but I'm not going over to whatever you happen to use > > - I'm not smart enough to learn something else - and then teach > > Judy. " > > > > I'm a Debian fan. Judy, his wife, has a M.S. in Music Education > > (major in piano, minor in organ). In my opinion they are both in > > the audience targeted by Microsoft and Canonical. I suspect that > > that anything looking like Gome3 would be a show stopper. > > > > Suggestions? > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org <javascript:;> > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org <javascript:;> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug