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Thanks Paul, good advice. On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 09:29:16PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > > > On 17/02/2019 21:07, Andy Wills wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It's almost Plymouth LUG time again. Usual time and place (Sat 24th, 12, Moments > > Café, Plymouth). Perhaps a quick 'hands up' on the list if you're coming? > > > > One of the women working at the café says she might bring in her old laptop to > > try out Linux. Quite an old laptop with Windows 10, so really slow. Any thoughts > > on a good noob distro for a non-techie with a Windows background? > > > > My default is Ubuntu 18.04 for this kind of thing, but perhaps someone might > > want to argue for Mint? Or something else? > > > > All the best > > > > Andy > > > > > Mint is good as it looks a little like windows in terms of the menu. > > However I would go with which ever you feel most comfortable supporting. > > Maybe worth inviting her to join the lug list too, that way we can all > provide some degree of support (answering questions at least) and any > practical support can be undertaken at Lug meets. > > First step is to id the hardware, then perhaps dual boot to begin with. > > Paul > > > -- > Paul Sutton > http://www.zleap.net > https://www.linkedin.com/in/zleap/ > Twitter : @zleap2018 > gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq