Sean Finney on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:00:13 +0200 |
so i've decided to make it a personal mission to convert my mom over to path of the enlightened. she doesn't know a whole lot about computers, but she doesn't use them for much either (email, word processing, web, et c.). my plan is to grab, possibly modify, and then burn one of those system-on-a-ramdisk cd's, and show her how it would work the same for her needs, and then convince her to let me back her stuff up and then go to work on her computer. unfortunately, i don't know too much about (nor would i consider myself a good judge of) user-friendliness of the various desktop environments. i'm guessing that i'd be wanting to use something involving either gnome or kde, but my experience with both has been more or less "give me the xterm". so now i'd like to field any opinions that anyone would like to share about user-friendliness for this little endeavor of mine. distributions? desktop environments? window managers? applications? also if anyone has personal experience with any of those system-on-a-ramdisk CD's (I know of a few for linux, and one for netbsd), I'd really like to hear what you have to say. thanks, --sean ps: i'm cross-posting this to SLUG (swarthmore (college) LUG) and PLUG (philadelphia (area) LUG) in the hopes that i get more responses. sorry to those who get two messages :) ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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