I think for older people just starting now, using gnome or OS X is a lot easier due to the layout, I usually use gnome and add the most used icons onto the top tool bar, so they can have music, internet, email, im and when they want to switch off they just click the power button, very simple and a hell of a lot better than vista! Also get less support requests because nothing goes wrong(well in comparison to windows). Daniel
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Stean Sent: 18 September 2007 10:20 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for new users It all comes down to personal preference I guess, but the nice thing about Gnome is that it hides the complexity of the system from the user unless they actively go searching for it - and to someone for whom a computer is effectively just a web-browser and a platform for email and IM clients that's no bad thing IMHO. That describes the last 3 people i've installed Ubuntu for perfectly - they don't even have any music collections to speak of, never mind loads of video files (don't ask me how anyone can live without music - I know I can't...) Pete On 18/09/2007, Stephen Garton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/09/2007, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Scrase, Eddie wrote: > > > > I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a > > With reference to the 2-bars setup, My mother-in-law uses Ubuntu (on > my recommendation!), and the first thing she mentioned when I asked > her how she was finding it (we are talking 6 months ago when I first > got her using it) was how much clearer it was. She likes having the 2 > bars. The stuff at the bottom is the stuff she has open, and the stuff > at the top is stuff she can open. > > Bit of background, she had a storke at the back end of last year, and > still gets a bit confused with things, so the simpler the better! > > She also prefers the gnome-main-menu to the default, but I think that > is because she only uses a half dozen programs, so gnome-main-menu > makes it easy to find them. > > -- > Steve Garton > http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- 'In letters of gold, on a snow-white kite, I will write "I Love You!" And send it soaring high above you, for all to read!' RIP Billy M 1957-1997 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
