[ale] Distro for Mom?
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Aug 5 16:59:49 EDT 2004
Vincent Fox wrote:
> Any distro under the hood is fine, worried about the paint job.
>
> I guess one of my bigger unstated points is one that either has:
>
> 1) Simplified interface already available
> 2) Easiest to configure as such
>
> I can't have your average cluttered KDE or Gnome desktop. Mom is
> about 70 and I had enough trouble with tech support by phone
> (they live 5 hours away) as it was.
You can modify the menus, or simply removed them altogether. The way my
mother-in-law is setup, everything she needs is an icon on the desktop.
Multiple icons for different websites.
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Until later, Geoffrey Registered Linux User #108567
AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995
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