[OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 27 03:07:22 EDT 2012


What to go for?

I would agree with Richmond that xfce is the current desktop of choice.  My
own distro of choice is Debian, but if this is your first shot at Linux I
would go with PCLinuxOS, XFCE Edition.

I would also agree with Richmond to install on a separate hard drive.  Its
cheap and its foolproof.  Installing PCL in this way will be no harder than
installing a big application.  The PCL magazine is great, its a really
friendly user group.  It updates fairly slowly.  It has a very nice control
panel system where you do everything through GUI, which derives ultimately
from Mandriva.

If you get serious about Linux you will end up with Debian in the end.  But
in the meantime, PCL will do the job very well for you.  Get it here:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=10

You will have to install OpenOffoce or LibreOffice yourself, but they make
that very easy too, providing a direct link to it.

Basically all you have to do is insert your hardware, then boot from the CD,
and choose 'install'.  Point it to the blank hard drive and have coffee.  

Debian will still be there when you get around to wanting it.

Peter

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