On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Rich Morgan wrote:
>> What distro would be easiest for a complete neophyte (I'm talking 12:00
>> flasher here) to use? I don't want her to even attempt anything but
>> email, web, and maybe showing downloaded/mailed media. It definitely
>> can't provide easy access from Jane User to the root account. Ease of
>> administration isn't really a big deal; I'll set it up, and fix whatever
>> breaks, but if I change anything I'll never hear the end of it.
>
> This is a really loaded question and you'll get 10 different answers from
> 10 different people. However, any Linux distro will work perfectly for
> her since all she'll be doing is e-mail, surfing the net and opening
> pictures. The bigger question would be whether she would prefer KDE or
> Gnome.
Well, getting her to express a preference on _anything_ is like pulling
teeth. But regardless, the only computer experience she has is maybe an
hour of handholding in MacOS (pretty much only in Eudora), so there is no
basis for comparison. I've used Gnome a bit, but mostly "no environment",
fvwm2 on X. Given the choice of KDE or Gnome, I'd go with the devil I know.
A minimal window manager is nice in a geeky way, but might be a PITA to set
up.
Is there a way in Gnome, to lock down the settings so they don't
accidentally get changed? Or even better, have a "Theme" thing like XP?
> Given those low-powered stats, I'd stay away from some of the more bloated
> distro's like Suse and Ubuntu. Since it really doesn't matter what Linux
> distro you use, I'd personally recommend Slackware or Debian.
Debian (actually Ubuntu) and I don't get along, philosophical differences
mainly. It wants things done one way, and gosh darn it, I don't feel like
doing it that way, so it hoses my system out of spite. That sort of thing.
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