Re: [LUG] Using linux as a desktop OS

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well here is a real story..

My fiancee is currently studying for her ECDL (yeah i read all what you
guys had to say...) she has always used Windoze of some flavour.. be it
3.x or 9x When she came to live with me i was going on and on about how
wonderful linux is.. (can you blame me ?) i forced her in to using it.. 

In a word.. duck to water.. she needed very little guidance.. like "see
that foot ?.. thats like the `start button`" and she was well away..

For those who havn;t already realized, i use gnome, opera and
evolution... works really well.. in fact the only thing i use Windoze
for now is my web cam, eeprom writer.. oh and my MCP studies...

Hope thats the kind of info you wanted

Neil

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 18:22, Alex Charrett wrote:
> A thought has occurred to me, how many people on here have experience of
> using Linux as a desktop system, like a normal user would use Windows
> etc.
>
> I say this because i never use things like the graphical file managers
> etc and have no idea how hard they are to use for a new linux *user*.  I
> have the dubious habit of doing everything I can on a command line, my X
> sessions tend to be lots of terminal windows and a browser.  And I run
> Window Maker on my main pc and blackbox on my laptop, nuff said really.
>
> So, any comments on a users perspective I'd be very interested in.
>
> And if thats doesn't make sense I'll blame it on the fact I'm about to
> go out and strut my funky stuff for the evening, for the express purpose
> of disturbing Nick :)
>
> Alex.

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