Robin Menneer wrote: > Neil > As a new comer to Ubuntu, Welcome!
> I find that it is unnecessarily > sophisticated. It would be very useful to know a little more about an example or two on what you find as over sophisticated. I set up and ran the age concern berks UKOnline Centre for some years in Reading, and I would be happy to be aware of your desired approach. > What I need is an operating system that will run Open > Office and similar freeware on a simple turn-key basis, and not all > the facilities that I seem to have on my downloaded version of Ubuntu > - which I had to get someone else to install. I don't mind > non-essentials being on the hard drive, but I don't want to be able to > access it or to suffer if it goes wrong. I started computing with > Fortran 1 over 30 years ago and had one of the first Commodore Pets, > and have managed to keep away from Windows, moving from DOS to Susi > and Tiger You did well to stay away from windows. I do not know what susi and tiger are though, sorry. > Now aged 75 my needs are much more simple and your > attitude to a suitable cut-down desktop based Obuntu would suit me as > well as to newcomers. There are various possibilities. It is easy for the install person to first install a standard system and then remove a lot of programs, and some facilities if they know what is required. The problem arises when people want different things. One person wants to play a video and another wants to use online chatrooms (my very aged ex mother in law), another just letters and email etc. Where in the UK are you located? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
