[PLUG] Guiding a geographically remote friend from Windows to Linux

[Tim Wescott]

That's a good point - I've had Ubuntu updates screw things up. I've just adopted a strategy of putting in a new hard drive whenever X.04 comes out and doing a clean install. It sounds like that's not for him. 


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-------- Original message --------
From: Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> 
Date: 03/27/2016  1:38 PM  (GMT-07:00) 
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org 
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Guiding a geographically remote friend from Windows to
  Linux 

On 3/27/2016 11:05 AM, Tim Wescott wrote:
>
>
> Check Xubuntu for usability. Most of Ubuntu's Microsoft like qualities are in the desktop, and Xubuntu puts Xfce on top of Ubuntu. Lubuntu is a possibility, too. (I use Xubuntu, for much the reasons you quote).

Remember you introduced me to the Debian family in the first 
place. Besides their default UI I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable 
having having him on something using a rolling release 
philosophy. I only sporadically follow Ubuntu related groups, 
does that create any problems in the real world? As to which UI, 
I'd have look at each of them. The choice would depend more 
heavily on "human factors" than technical specs.

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