On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:44, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > William Ballard wrote:
> I'd have to say that anyone who says this distro isn't user friendly > enough for just about anyone to use is wrong. I built a Debian box for > a friend of mine who is about as computer illiterate as anyone I've ever > seen. He'd had his computer for 6 years and didn't know how to copy > and paste in Windows or use Explorer to look around inside the system > when I first met him less than a year ago. He was scared stiff of the > thing. > > I built him a sarge box a couple of months after his Win98 machine had > been hacked for the 4th time. He's as happy as a clam with this thing. > He's actually excited about learning about his computer for the first > time in his life. I've walked him through making changes to his system > by editing .conf files over the phone, walked him through the CUPS setup > and how to administer his printer, and a few other things. He likes > seeing these things and understanding how they change his system. It's > changed his attitude towards computing in general because it's no longer > a "black box". ... and now in Sarge he might not need even to edit .conf files directly because of configure-debian and synaptic + libgnome2-perl. Chris. -- Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
