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On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 09:00 +0100, 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. > > Asking 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 > > > > For me A newbie of 20 years Fedora wins all the time -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) sip:kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq