Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [LUG at IITD:1921] [OT] (p ossibly) Most user friendly Distro for non-techies

2008-10-13 Thread PJ 
Shiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 My vote goes to Xandros with Easydesktop that is distributed with every new
Asus EEEPC (the highly
 acclaimed netbook series from Asus). It takes the cake when it comes to
user-friendliness and ease of use
 for first time users.

xandros has too much proprietary stuff to be free as in freedom in my opinion,
so I would avoid it if you want to avoid lock-in.

 I have heard people asking if this was M$ Windoze with a different theme :)

It may be a good idea putting an MS windows theme onto a linux system for people
who are switching over (there are plenty of such themes available).

PJ



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Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [LUG at IITD:1921] [OT] (p ossibly) Most user friendly Distro for non-techies

2008-10-13 Thread Raj Mathur 
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Shiv wrote:
 [snip]
 Like most discussions on this list, this thread is in danger of
 meandering away from the OP's question regarding the Most user
 friendly distro for non-techies. IMHO we should not be debating
 whether the most user friendly distro also has FOSS components and so
 on. We are just attempting to give our views on what linux distros
 are easiest to adapt by people with little or no technical skills.

Adoption can't be considered a one-off process; when you adopt you also 
buy into the distribution promoter's future, and if the promoter has 
closed doors to their continual evolution it'd be a bad idea to adopt 
their product, no?

Of course, if you're only looking at adopting a distribution for six 
months then what you say may well be valid.

Regards,

-- Raju
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