On 8/9/24 05:27, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 21:50:43 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@gmail.com> wrote:
He's an engineer, he'll figure it out, there is just no shortcut for butt-in-chair time reading...
I don't use KDE, but https://docs.kde.org/ and https://userbase.kde.org/Welcome_to_KDE_UserBase seem like a reasonable starting point.
Most engineers should be hung, drawn and quartered. OK, got that off my chest. Tell the big baby to just suck it up and start using it. KDE is similar enough to his Windows that it is pretty much instinctive. Click on the big blue thingy and a menu opens to pick what you want to do. [ actually mine is white not the blue I remember ] The hardest part is knowing what does what: GIMP - I know what a "gimp" is. Usually some person with a bad leg. makes them walk funny. SO, why do I have a gimp on my computer. Click it. OH, it's a really nice graphics program. File that away for future reference. Dolphin - A mammal that swims in the ocean. Can make amazing leaps and walk on it's tail. Goes "Eeee Eeee Eeee" a lot and likes fish from it's trainer. Also like to thump on underwater phone domes to get attention at sea. Ride the bow wave with amazing speed. Cool! File manager. Kate - I knew a Kate in high school. Really beautiful. Out of my league. Last time I saw her she weighed about three hundred pounds. Glad that one go away. OH! Nice little text editor. Quite powerful. And, the list goes on and on. Tell him to just jump right in with both feet. I did back about 2000 and never regretted it. "DANGER Will Robinson! DANGER!" Stay away from command line of you don't know what your doing. You CAN break Linux that way. Did it many times back in the beginning. Cuss, Fdisk, Format, re-install. Over and over till I learned to stay away from there -- God is Great Beer is good Liberals are crazy!