On Sunday 02 August 2009 08:15:49 am John Beardmore wrote: > Jeffrey Silverman wrote: > > My point is really that I recommend Ubuntu to new users > > *precisely because of* things like the fact that you can't edit > > the text in the 3dtext screensaver. Starting with a > > harder-to-use distro is a mistake, imo. > > Maybe, but I would have thought that text screen saver where you > couldn't change the text would be seem by most users as utterly > pointless ? > > > Cheers, J/.
Other distros worth considering are Kubuntu and Slackware which I use. Both of these use the more Windows-like KDE interface by default. Slackware also allows a choice of several simplified interfaces. And if the author has not blocked it I can highlight and copy text from a pdf, a web page etc. into my favorite editor program. I can install Slackware from DVD a lot faster than I was able to install Kubuntu or Ubuntu. But I have been doing it for a while. IMO the Gnome interface featured on Debian and its variant Ubuntu is idiosyncratic and harder to use. But "de gustibus non disputandum est " etc. (roughly there is no disputing about taste). -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
