[Novalug] Recommended distro for Windows XP users?

Margret Treiber margret@the-margret.com
Tue Jan 21 17:23:11 EST 2014


Here is a site with images of the desktop managers.

http://www.howtogeek.com/163154/linux-users-have-a-choice-8-linux-desktop-environments/

You can get a good idea of what looks most like XP.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Tom Gutnick wrote:
>
> > Greg/Charlie --
> > This all makes sense to me. I've been using Ubuntu for a few years,
> although
> > found that their newer desktop (Unity?) looks less like Windows than what
> > they had a few years ago. I just looked at the Mint web site, and see
> that I
> > need to pick one of four desktops (Cinnamon, MATE, Kfce, and KDE).  For
> my
> > users, they'll be happier if I give them (i.e., install) a single
> > recommendation, rather than making them choose. Which of those four will
> > seem the most familiar to them? (I don't mind experimenting if I have to,
> > but some good recommendations might save me several hours of work.)
>
> KFCE is a lot like XFCE which is like the old pre-Gnome3 gnome
>
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:41:11 -0500
> >> From: greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Recommended distro for Windows XP users?
> >> To: Novalug <novalug@calypso.tux.org>
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> >>
> >> People say Mint.
> >>
> >> As I said on a different thread
> >>    auto login
> >>    start Chrome/Firefox on their default page and build their bookmarks
> >>    migrate them to webpage (and maybe web docs from google)
> >>    remove all clutter from desktop
> >>    add icon for browser, libreoffice
> >>
> >
> >> From: Charles Richard Head <CharlesRHead@Netscape.Net>
> >> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Recommended distro for Windows XP users?
> >> To: novalug@calypso.tux.org
> >> Message-ID: <52DEE2E4.2070607@Netscape.Net>
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> >>
> >> *Tom,*
> >>
> >> Greg's answer is a good one that would be generally applicable to most
> >> distros.  Another approach would be to make bootable CD/DVDs for several
> >> distros, run the distros from the CD/DVDs and let your friends pick the
> > one
> >> they like.  I'd suggest that you include Linux Mint and Ubuntu, along
> with
> >> what ever others you might like or know of.  I have my wife and sister
> in
> > law
> >> both happily using Linux Mint, and they are definitely not computer
> gurus.
> >>
> >> To give you an idea of what I'm working with, my wife was asked by
> >> computer support at work what kind of computer she was using.  She
> looked
> >> on her laptop's lid and answered "dy".  They of course hadn't heard of a
> > "dy"
> >> computer.  After thinking about it for a minute, they suggested that she
> >> should turn the computer lid around and try reading it again.
> >>
> >> *Charlie Head*
> >>
> >> *********************************************
> >> On 01/21/2014 03:07 PM, Tom Gutnick wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Microsoft's April 8 deadline is looming, and I need to help several
> >>> people who are still running Windows XP.  These are, generally, not
> >>> very computer-savvy users, and I want to minimize learning curves.
> >>> Which Linux distro would provide an experience and look the most
> >>> similar to Windows XP?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >
> >
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