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On 29/09/11 09:00, Neil Winchurst wrote:
This all started because my brother came to see my new computer the other day. He was quite impressed by it but said that, although he has a laptop, he did not do much computing. 'A bit of browsing and a few emails' was his comment. He is not really interested in anything else so all the new bells and whistles leave him indifferent.Mint has a free printable manual, as does ubuntu ok the ubuntu one is for 10.10, the latter is also available via lulu.comAsking around since then and thinking about it I got to wondering which distro might be the best for, shall we say, the more mature possible convert to Linux. (This could include ones who have never tried computing before.) Looking at the more than ten years of my experience with Linux I made a list of all the distros that I have tried.Mandrake/Mandriva, Suse, Kubuntu, Mint KDE, Mint Xfce, PCLinuxOS, Pardus, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Puppy.Yes, I realise that there are plenty more. However, of those I have tried I really think that the best one for the 'older newbie' is Xubuntu. Just my personal opinion.Perhaps not for the younger ones among us but, certainly in this area, there is a high proportion of oldies, (being one myself). Since there seems to be an ongoing interest in converting people to Linux I thought to suggest that the approach to the older members of the community needs to be different from how we work with the younger ones.And we do have quite a lot of choices of distro, both a blessing and a curse!!I would be interested in any feedback on this, Neil Winchurst
so if you want something that has a free manual which could be useful for beginenrs and help you to provide support this could be an option
either that for other distros you may want to make sure you are both reading from the same webpage regarding how to do things., it's much easier from a support point of view.
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