On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:49 -0600, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* N B Day
[12-14-09 14:22]: I'm considering converting my wife's play and writing computers to Linux Mint for a couple of reasons:
3, I've already done this for several friends.
You might have a quick look at puppy-linux. Minimal/easy install and very little overhead. Thanks.... I think I played with that a little during the big-Katrina-hole-in-my-life tour four years ago; maybe time for another look.
The name Puppy might be a problem for a couple of my users who fancy themselves to be cowboys. I guess I could re-package it as BigMeanDog Linux and no one would know. Would the putative nerd-who-comes-after-me know what to do with it? A marketing opportunity! Package something appropriate for sale in western wear, feed stores and motorcycle shops: real men aren't Microsofties,they use BigMeanDog. One thing I know for sure: openSUSE may be all kinds of wonderful but it absolutely confounds new and non-technical users. I've learned this the hard way. The default to KDE 4 is part of the problem right now (and I dread Gnome 3.0). It doesn't look/act like anything they've ever seen. Non-technical folks don't see this as an adventure, they want their AOL back. The advantage of Mint is that everything is pre-installed (including the illegal codecs) and the defaults are sensible enough that cowboys, wives and girlfriends can be doing useful stuff in a hour. Maybe there's some Irish solidarity going on too.... -- N. B. Day 39° 28.3964' North, 119° 48.6346' West, 1403m up Aurelius up 2 days 2:14, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.24, 0.19 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop x86_64 GNU/Linux openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org