[PLUG] Should I suggest Ubuntu (which flavor)?

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 01:42:24 UTC 2014


I just fired up Slackware64-14.1 (of course! Slackers Unite!) with KDE for
my wife's laptop. We'll see how it goes.  Backup plan is Linux Mint.

On Monday, April 21, 2014, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <wevl at pacifier.com> wrote:

> Suggestions? Look at Linux Mint. My wife is very computer un-friendly
> but loves her Linux Mint. She used to use Ubuntu (before Unity). I have
> set several friends up with Linux Mint, both Linux Mint 13 LTS Mate and
> KDE.
>
> I'm a slacker myself (Slackware).
> Wayne
>
> On 04/19/2014 01:13 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I've received an email from a E.E. classmate from late 60's.
> >
> > It said in part "I haven't quite given up on XP yet but am trying
> > to go to 7.  The problem is that I hate 7 and hate Chrome & Gmail
> > even more - but I'm not going over to whatever you happen to use
> > - I'm not smart enough to learn something else - and then teach
> > Judy. "
> >
> > I'm a Debian fan.  Judy, his wife, has a M.S. in Music Education
> > (major in piano, minor in organ). In my opinion they are both in
> > the audience targeted by Microsoft and Canonical. I suspect that
> > that anything looking like Gome3 would be a show stopper.
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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