On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 06:25:52 -0600 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> On 12/19/2016 5:28 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > > [1] Actual case. Thinks she is using Windows because she has > > LibreOffice. Certainly not representative of all grandmothers. > > > > I suspect the User Experience is as important as Application > Software. > Do you know which desktop is being used? > > I've been recommending Debian to an elderly friend who has > expressed annoyance with current version(s) of Windows. He has > sent me an old laptop with an implied "put up or shut up". I want > to put together a demo system that will be attractive to him. I > currently planning on Mate as the desktop. We live 1000 miles > apart so can't just drive over to show him what I use. Comments? TIA > > A good start would be finding the reasons for the current annoyance with Windows, you wouldn't want to replicate them in an attempt to keep his environment familiar. I went from Gnome2 to LXDE without too much trauma, at the time of Gnome3's arrival i.e. pre-Mate. When LXDE started giving trouble, which I now know was due to systemd arriving, I moved to Xfce4 and have been happy with it. Note that Windows 8 can be made somewhat civilised, as presumably can 10. He doesn't really have to live with daft tiles and fixed full-screen windows if he doesn't want to. My Win8.1 laptop looks and behaves much like Win7 almost all of the time. -- Joe
