Mandrake disappointment 1749
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:11:45 -0700, Snit
Not needed all that often really.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:42:59 -0700, Snit Sure. The man does not know the difference...
He's not really computer literate at all, but he can write his letters, do his email, manage pictures, surf the web, listen to music, etc...
That's certainly true. And GUIs, by design, are meant to be simple.
I don't think it's that big of a difference with Linux.
No sorry, I personally don't use these things. However, I do know that Kino (a GNOME app, strangely given it's "K" name) is a fairly nice, simple, easy to use home movie editor for Linux. Doesn't burn DVDs itself (no, not incomplete, that's by design) but exports to a format which is easily burnable, or handled by "DVD Authoring apps" by design. And of course, there are more powerful video editors as well.
But available when needed... In what way is he not computer literate? Sounds like he gets along quite well...
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:09:33 -0700, Snit That's true. I've noticed it in myself, when trying to teach my...
As for presentations, quite possible on Linux, people do them all the time without trouble. Open Office is one such program that has such capability.
Well, you seem to be expecting a Distro with one DE, and one set of apps for said DE...
Why should that effect what things irritate me? Even as an average Joe, I think that if I'd been exposed to transparent networking (although not knowing what it was called of course), and expected it to simply work like that, and then went to an OS that did *not* have it....I'd be rather irritated. To the point of calling the OS names perhaps.
Well, Mandrake obviously, I'm using it aren't I? Fedora Core 3 might be suitable. If you go KDE then perhaps SuSE, since KDE is often altered for SUSE to fit their own perceptions of how it should look (or at least has been in the past) and you might find it a bit more to your liking.
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