On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > since this seems a nit pick session , I believe to bring up the run > dialog box is <alt+F2>. Also imho Debian is not for a newbie or even > less so a windows convert, hence Ubuntu. > Good catch on the Alt-F2. I hardly use GNOME, so I tend to forget stuff like that. In the right environment, Debian is just as suitable, if not more so, as ubuntu. In fact, I have setup lots of newbies and windows converts up with Debian and have received a generally positive response.
> I noticed that the selection 'desktop' in tasksel now only installs a > Gnome Desktop, no KDE , which is guaranteed to confuse Windows > converts.One persons rhyme is another persons reason. > Odd. I generally spend less time "training" a new person on GNOME than on KDE. For instance, at my church I setup LTSP with everyone using GNOME desktops. Every single person there had not ever heard of Linux. After about five minutes of "training" they were off and running with GNOME. I've not done any deployments of KDE beyond one person at a time. But even with experienced Windows users who wanted something a little more flexible than GNOME, they tended to like KDE but be more confused by it. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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