Oops, now I see--"novice programmer" is in the subject line. Still, I stand by my (and Cindy's) comments, maybe some willl borrow the computers who are not interested in programming--I certainly hope so! :-)
On Saturday, September 02, 2017 04:28:51 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > +1, and I'll go a step or two further: > > It wasn't clear from the original post that the audience is programmers, > thus, I'd want to show potential users that LInux has many of the same > tools and capabilities as those other OSs. > > Further, I would make sure to choose several editors, including some that > are somewhat windows like--I'd include: > > * at least one from the family of editors powered by Scintilla, perhaps > Geany and Scite > * kate (from KDE) and maybe something equivalent from GNOME (I > essentially have never used GNOME) > * nedit > > Oh, and maybe to give one of the simplest editors that can be used as root > without having to get access to an X display: "editor"
